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When brother North fought brother South
…Oft in the other’s home,
The bodies fell on battlefields
…In woods and fields and loam.
The red plague on the battlegrounds,
…Spread by the buzzing bees,
Was still but half the total brought
…At rest, by dread disease.
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https://www.phil.muni.cz/~vndrzl/amstudies/civilwar_stats.htm
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© Dennis Allen Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2017.
The Bard on the Hill 