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1861 by Walt Whitman

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Heard your determin’d voice, launch’d forth again and again; Year that suddenly sang by the mouths of the round-lipp’d cannon, I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.

End of the Civil War

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Thursday, August 20, 2009

With these words of President Johnson, the Civil War was now officially decreed to be over. Reconstruction was underway as the nation worked to rebuild all that had been destroyed in the Civil War.