Introduction to The Nameless and the Faceless of the Civil War:
Gettysburg, Manassas & More
The Nameless and the Faceless of the Civil War, Gettysburg, Manassas & More is the third book in the Nameless and Faceless series. The prior two books are The Nameless and the Faceless of the Civil War and The Nameless and the Faceless Women of the Civil War. Both books earned me Artist in Residence through the National Parks Arts Foundation-National Park Service, Gettysburg Poetry September 2020, and Artist in Residence-National Park Service Manassas Poetry October 2021.
The books are a collection of 28 poems and 28 historical essays on the Civil War. We know that not everyone who witnessed and experienced the Civil War made it into the history books. What about all those who rest in Civil War Battlefield Cemeteries with only the word Unknown to note their final resting place? So many of them still without a name or a face. By combining the rhyme and narrative of poetry with Civil War History a lost voice of history comes forth to share their experiences and their suffering. A place where their humanity and the songs of their soul come together to create a voice to tell their story of compassion, life, death, agony, and grief as a reminder to the world that they did not die in vain.
There is no North or South in these collections. No border states. No governance or politics. For in the voices of the lost and unknowns, it is to remember that suffering has no boundaries.
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