Life during the civil war was an era for original poems to be written in the United States. The war separated the United States into two parts. So many things were going on such as gun warfare, spread of disease, and blacks were held under slavery in the southern states. In the poem “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” the poem talks about what was happening in the war in a quote written to describe in a scary way “He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of Wrath are stored. In a way the writer actually is saying in the area where his men are heading lies the face of dangerous warfare. Millions of people died from so many events and attacks that occurred in the American soil. Many family members were dead from all the stuff that happened
