Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

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Authors: Herman Melville In Year : 1866

Book Language: English

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Dedication
Misgivings
The Conflict of Convictions
Apathy and Enthusiasm
The March into Virginia
Lyon
Ball's Bluff
Dupont's Round Fight
The Stone Fleet
Donelson
The Cumberland
In the Turret
The Temeraire
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight
Shiloh
The battle for the Mississippi
Malvern Hill
The Victor of Antietam
Battle of Stone River
Running the Batteries
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian)
Gettysburg
The House-top
Look-out Mountain
Chattanooga
The Armies of the Wilderness
On the Photograph of a Corps Commander
The Swamp Angel
The Battle for the Bay
Sheridan at Cedar Creek
In the Prison Pen
The College Colonel
The Eagle of the Blue
A Dirge for McPherson
At the Cannon's Mouth
The March to the Sea
The Frenzy in the Wake
The Fall of Richmond
The Surrender at Appomattox
A Canticle
The Martyr
"The Coming Storm"
Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh
The Muster
Aurora-Borealis
The Released Rebel Prisoner
A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia
"Formerly a Slave"
The Apparition
Magnanimity Baffled
On the Slain Collegians
America
Verses Inscriptive and Memorial
Presentation to the Authorities
The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle
Lee in the Capitol
A Meditation

"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, 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 Fathers" (Summary by Alan Mapstone)