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Subject: RE: Site for Poetry&Songs of the USCivil War
From: GUEST,Llewellyn
Date: 25-Feb-00 - 08:36 PM

Hi all, I was looking for a civil war poem which I thought was called something like "If we had met before" and is about a soldier who wonders what if he had met his enemy somewhere other than on the battlefield. I think it contains the line "I fired at him as he at me, and shot him in his place". Does anyone recognise it?