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This another sad song about the Civil War. I believe that it's coming from a wonan's point of view. The saddest part of all in the War was that a loth of mothers, sisters, and wives did not know where their husbands, sons, or brothers were because they never returned from the war. This song is just expressing the saddnes and confusion of all of those women. The thing is, though, is that those women knew that their loved one might have died a noble mand and for a good cause and all, byut they didn't think that a death in the family was actually going to happen to them. When that happens, it hits really close to home for everyone who knew that person. People knew that deaths happened, but they never thought it would happen to someone they knew. Then, when that situation does occur, there is a sense of shock for everyone. People just didn't think that it was fair. This is why, I believe, that a lot of outrage and hatred of the war and the opposing side (whatever side that might be,Union or Confederate) sprouted up in the aftereffects of the war and during the time of it. 1204849894

This song really struck right to my heart. i felt all the emotion the singer put into the song. I believe that something like what this song is depicting happened after every shipment of soldiers came home from the war. Everyone wanted answers on who died and where their loved ones were when and the soldiers coming home probably didn't have answers for them. This song is kind of only relevant to the Civil War though because now a days the parents and family of the soldiers can communicate with them and they kind of know whats going on. Back then no one knew anything about what was happening with the war and they were all looking for answers from anyone. 1204856107

This song was one of the saddest songs that i had heard in a long time. The women with husbands or family out in the war must have been so scared. If thier husband or family didn't come home, the wives would have had a hard time living life. In the past, men played a major part in the family. They would hunt for food and take care of the outside work, while women on the inside. The mother would have to work more to provide with the neccessities for a family and still had to find time for the love of her family. The song describes the feelings that women were experiencing. This feeling of not knowing what would happen was one of the scariest things a women could go through. She would have to restart a part of her life and would lose someone that she loved dearly. I think that many people can go through this feeling today with loved ones in the war and can connect to it all over the world.1205185636ape2

I also think that this was a pretty sad song. I feel as if the women just didn't know what to do with herself, because of the fact that she could possibly not see her husband again. And a even more sad part to that situation was that the husband may not even have died, but just could'nt find his way back home. I've never personally felt the feeling and emotions that go through someones body at a point and time like this, but I cud gurantee that they feel a big part of themselves missing from inside of them. 1205195234

This song exemplifies the sorrow and dread the people had to face. There was no fast way to relay information or to identify people. Because of this people had no idea what was going on with their family members at war. It would have been terrible to hear all of the horrific stories from front lines and to have no idea about the condition of your brother or dad. Im glad to say that i have never had to feel anything like this. This song is too sad, they shouldn't play it any more. mme

I like this song, but it is very emotional and sad. It is talking about the Civil War. I feel like this song is about a person who is talking to an injured solider. the person talking has a brother who had to go and fight in the war. During this song I really liked how the speaker mentioned all of these different battles and main points throughout the whole civil war. This helped me connect a lot more to the character than if these weren't included into the story. This is a typical song that explains what the loved ones of soldiers were feeling at this time. They were probably just as scared as the soldiers were. They had to live each day hoping that there loved one was ok, and that they will one day get to see them again. This song has a great message but it was one that was hard to listen to because it was so sad. I like these songs about war, even though we weren't living at this time, I feel like they give me the feeling of being there. 1205362721

I believe that this song is extremely sad and this is probably a song that can relate to almost every family during the civil war. It was cool to listen to it but if you really think about it you can really feel the pain in the song and the way that the singer is sad and his voice is really dramatic. I would never listen to a song like this because it makes me wonder what it would be like if i lost a person in a war or if it was me in war and was so nervous that the only thing i could think about is if my death or my family probibly waiting for me and missing me. I dont think i could live if one of my family members was lost in war and no one knew where he was. I bet that this feeling was probibly very common in the families that had a son or a father that was able to weild a weapon and go of and fight in the war./ 1205368845hre

I agree with the many above that this is a very sad and depressing song but i also find it to be a bit inspiring. It's about a brother who is wondering how is brother is doing in the war. Because they had virtually no communication with their loved ones who were in the war except for seldom letters, it was hard to not ponder and think that someone you admire could be in great pain and strife, or even dead. I cannot even imagine someone i love going to the war today even though you could communicate with them better and more frquently. I find being a family memeber or friend of a military solider back at the time of the civil war had to be extremely hard.

The questions that the narrator asks in the song are very heart felt, and im sure, common questions of relatvies and friends of soliders that fought in the battles. He asks the other soldier if he saw his brother amoung the people he fought with and in a battle that he recieved his wounds in. He wonders if he recognized his brother and wanted to know if he was hurt, or if he was a brilliant fighter. He knows his brother is courageous and wants to know if he's allright.

War is very dangerous and is almost harder emotionally on the people that love the solider back home, rather than it is for the soldier him/herself. By watching currently the depression and sadness that people go through when their loved ones go to fight in Iraq is similar, becuase these peopel have absolutely no clue if they will ever see someone they love ever again.

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//Was My Brother in the Battle//, is a song about a worried mother, father, brother, sister, spouse or friend wondering if their loved one was involved in the war. In each stanza or verse, a different question is asked concerning a different aspect. Throughout the whole entire song, the person being portrayed is worried sick. This is a good explanation, because it is relevant to alot of things; how it was back then, and how it is today. Today, with our troops in Iraq, families are always worrying about the members of their families who are serving. Even with the letters and the occasional phone calls to home, the instinct to be concerned and to worry becomes a routine in a family such as the one being sung about. Having a loved one in a war is a risk; always worrying about whether they will come home with both arms and legs, or even if they will come home alive. That is what this song was about, wondering if she will ever see her loved one again.. wondering if the two will ever be joined back together. 1205375676

This song was about family members or loved one having concern for those in the war. Through the song you can see the pain they must've gone through when wondering if that person was alive and not hurt in any way. Throughout the song you get the feeling that someone is very worried about their love one and hoping nothing but the best for them. It's really sad knowing that so much pain and despair was brought out during this song. All types of emotions are present and most of them are either grievances or sorrow. Any family or friend who had a person they cared about putting their life on the line during the Civil War, had this song dedicated to them. And, I feel as if this song represent them in a good way. It can show the audience how much they cared and supported the ones they loved fighting in the war. 1205383124

i this song was a good song to tell you hoe the people were feeling douring the war for theur loved one in the war. i also feel it tells a grate story on how the people must have felt when they did not know where their loved ones were and if they would even be home ever.i can relate to this song because my cousin has served in war in the middle east and i was always afraid he was not going to come home or that some thing was going to hapen to him even though nothing happend to him i can still relat to the fear of loseing a loved one. 1205447863

This was a very sad and heart-breaking song. It's about a person wondering if their brother was involved in the war. By the sounds of the song it sounds like its coming from a woman which would make her the man's sister. The war was and is such a sad time for family's/wives/husbands/children, and family's in general to imagine what their loved one could possibly be going through. The woman describes different worries about her brother being in the war in each stanza which I thought was interesting. Between the loved one's and the families their really was no communication back then like their is now, and if you add that along with them endangering themself in the actual battles, it must of been hectic. At the same time i'm definitley glad we heard this song it was very special and really hit you right in the brain as to what this must of honestly and unfortunately been like for all relatives. 1205449446 _ I agree with everyone that this song really touched my heart. I think it really hits close to home since we're at war now. People now can kind of connect with people from back then and that makes the song more enjoyable. The rhyme scheme is one of the main things that helped keep my attention. I also love how much the poem expresses worry and the things going on in the battle. An example is when it talks about how outnumbered the soldiers were on the Carolina coast. This way you undersatnd what's going on and how bad things really are which helps you to connect with the feelings of the author. I also agree that the feelings given off are those of a woman but you never know. Overall this poem had a great message and I'm glad we read it especially with things going on nowadays.1205461578~

This song expresses what thousands of families must have felt in this time of war. I can't imagine what it would feel like to have a brother or sister or father go off into a war after hearing about how much death, disease, and injury caused by it. Also, contacting them would be difficult. Letters were probably slow, and there was no media. You wouldn't know for a very long time if your son was killed in battle. I'm sure families of today feel the same as their sons and daughters choose the military as their career and get ready to go to Iraq. I know many families in this situation, and not a day goes by that they don't worry constantly about what could be going on. War is a terrible thing, and seeing young kids on the battle field dying without even seeing the world as an adult just breaks my heart. 1205464779

I thought that this song was very sad indeed because this is the reality of the war. Nonone knew what was going on or how family was, it was a sad time. I could not imagine not seeing a family member be shipped off knowing that they are likely to die. Usually they would die from either didease gunshot wounds or getting blown up by big guns. The technology was not good and even if it was a small wound it would have the potential to kill them. This would worry me so much and they probably could not keep in touch because the mode of travel was not good. So pretty much it was a bad situation no matter what.

I think this is probably the saddest song of them all because it is just talking about a bunch of men who died but instead one specific man that died. Also the person singing this song knew the man personally which just makes it seem a little more harsh. It starts with many questions in the singing form. This person is asking another soldier if they have seen their brother. She is pleading with them just so she can find out if he is okay or not. Im not sure but I think that this brother was a soldier for the north. Also it has a very obvious rhyming pattern of ABAB which makes it sound a little better. Overall I really like this poem it shows the hardships that they had to go through during the time of the war. 1205471964

I thought that this song was very sad. It talked about how wives were waiting at home for their husbands to return from war, not knowing that they wouldn't because unfortunately they died fighting. I think that it would be awful to not know that loved one has died, and to keep living with false hope thinking that they would return. I think the most awful part would be seeing other soldiers eventually returning, but not the one that you were praying would come back. In the newspaper you read about how another young soldier was killed and it makes me wonder what the families of the experience with the news of their loved dying. I think it would kill me to know that a loved one of mine was killed in the war, i wouldn't know what to do. So i think that because the wives of the soldiers didn't know, it would be devasting for them to see their loved one never return. 1205473268