Fort Sumter Falls is track 3 from the album Blood and Iron: The Civil War.
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Cannons roar, the night explodes,
War’s grim path begins to unfold!
April’s dawn, the twelfth arrives,
Sumter’s walls, the South deprives,
Rebel guns, they spit their hate,
Union dreams meet brutal fate!
Brutal fate!
Lincoln calls, the militia rise,
Seventy-five thousand battle cries,
The South defies, the beast awakes,
The ground beneath us shakes!
Fort Sumter falls, the war begins,
Steel rains down, the fortress sins,
Blood awakens, the nation cries,
Death’s embrace where honor dies!
Where honor dies!
Where honor dies!
Smoke and fire, the harbor burns,
A nation’s soul forever turns,
No turning back, the pit is wide,
The war consumes both far and wide!
Far and wide!
Fort Sumter falls, the war begins,
Steel rains down, the fortress sins,
Blood awakens, the nation cries,
Death’s embrace where honor dies!
Where honor dies!
Where honor dies!
The first blood spills, the end’s in sight,
A symphony of endless night!
Endless night!
Endless night!
©2025 Hugh Mungus