Charles R. Allen was an enlisted man serving in Company A, 2nd Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry.

Many thanks to Gregg Gaston, who found these poems in Allen's diary and was kind enough to share them with us. They have been reproduced exactly as Allen wrote them.

"The Dying Comrade" || "Shiloh"

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