Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

About this eBook

Author

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Credits

David Maddock

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

War poetry, American

Category

Text

eBook-No.

12384

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12384

Release Date

May 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.
2. 2.By Herman Melville. — The Portent.
3. 3.Contents. — 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.
4. 4.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, — by Privates, of Colors captured in Battles ending in the Surrender of Lee. — The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle. — The Scout toward Aldie.
5. 5.Lee in the Capitol. — Lee in the Capitol. [24]
6. 6.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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