Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first book of poetry published by American author Herman Melville. The volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Country" and its 72 poems deal with the battles and personalities of the American Civil War and their aftermath. Also included are Notes and a Supplement in prose in which Melville sets forth his thoughts on how the Post-war Reconstruction should be carried out. Critics at the time were at best respectful and often sharply c...
Chapters (114)
- Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.
- The Portent.
- Verses Inscriptive and Memorial
- Misgivings.
- The Conflict of Convictions.[1]
- Apathy and Enthusiasm.
- The March into Virginia,
- Ending in the First Manassas.
- Lyon.
- Battle of Springfield, Missouri.
- Ball’s Bluff.
- A Reverie.
- Dupont’s Round Fight.
- The Stone Fleet.[2]
- An Old Sailor’s Lament.
- Donelson.
- The Cumberland.
- In the Turret.
- The Temeraire.[3]
- A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight.
- Shiloh.
- A Requiem.
- The Battle for the Mississipppi.
- Malvern Hill.
- The Victor of Antietam.[5]
- Battle of Stone River, Tennessee.
- A View from Oxford Cloisters.
- Running the Batteries,
- As observed from the Anchorage above Vicksburgh.
- Stonewall Jackson.
- Mortally wounded at Chancellorsville.
- Stonewall Jackson.
- (Ascribed to a Virginian.)
- Gettysburg.
- The Check.
- The House-top.
- A Night Piece.
- Look-out Mountain.
- The Night Fight.
- Chattanooga.
- The Armies of the Wilderness.
- On the Photograph of a Corps Commander.
- The Swamp Angel.[11]
- The Battle for the Bay.
- Sheridan at Cedar Creek.
- In the Prison Pen.
- The College Colonel.
- The Eagle of the Blue.[12]
- A Dirge for McPherson,[13]
- Killed in front of Atlanta.
- At the Cannon’s Mouth.
- Destruction of the Ram Albermarle by the Torpedo-Launch.
- The March to the Sea.
- The Frenzy in the Wake.[14]
- Sherman’s advance through the Carolinas.
- The Fall of Richmond.
- The tidings received in the Northern Metropolis.
- The Surrender at Appomattox.
- A Canticle:
- Significant of the national exaltation of enthusiasm at the close of the War.
- The Martyr.
- Indicative of the passion of the people on the 15th of April, 1865.
- “The Coming Storm:”
- A Picture by S.R. Gifford, and owned by E.B. Included in the N.A. Exhibition, April, 1865.
- Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh:[16]
- A plea against the vindictive cry raised by civilians shortly after the surrender at Appomattox.
- The Muster:[17]
- Suggested by the Two Days’ Review at Washington
- Aurora-Borealis.
- Commemorative of the Dissolution of Armies at the Peace.
- The Released Rebel Prisoner.[18]
- A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia.[19]
- “Formerly a Slave.”
- An idealized Portrait, by E. Vedder, in the Spring Exhibition of the National Academy, 1865.
- The Apparition.
- (A Retrospect.)
- Magnanimity Baffled.
- On the Slain Collegians.[20]
- America.
- Verses
- Inscriptive and Memorial
- On the Home Guards
- who perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri.
- Inscription
- for Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas.
- The Fortitude of the North
- under the Disaster of the Second Manassas.
- On the Men of Maine
- killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- An Epitaph.
- Inscription
- for Marye’s Heights, Fredericksburg.
- The Mound by the Lake.
- On the Slain at Chickamauga.
- An uninscribed Monument
- on one of the Battle-fields of the Wilderness.
- On Sherman’s Men
- who fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia.
- On the Grave
- of a young Cavalry Officer killed in the Valley of Virginia.
- A Requiem
- for Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports.
- On a natural Monument
- in a field of Georgia.[21]
- Commemorative of a Naval Victory.
- Presentation to the Authorities,
- The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle.
- The Scout toward Aldie.
- Lee in the Capitol.
- Lee in the Capitol.[24]
- A Meditation:
- Attributed to a northerner after attending the last of two funerals from the same homestead—those of a national and a confederate officer (brothers), his kinsmen, who had died from the effects of wounds received in the closing battles.
- A Meditation.
- Supplement.
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