Title Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Author Herman Melville
Year 1866
Publisher Harper & Brothers
Source djvu
Progress To be proofread
Transclusion Index not transcluded or unreviewed

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Contents.

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Chapters (not listed in original)
The Portent
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 xi
Misgivings
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 13
The Conflict of Convictions
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 14
Apathy and Enthusiasm
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 19
The March into Virginia
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 22
Lyon
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 24
Ball's Bluff
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 28
Dupont's Round Fight
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 30
The Stone Fleet
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 31
Donelson
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 33
The Cumberland
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 53
In the Turret
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 55
The Temeraire
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 58
A utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 61
Shiloh
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 63
The Battle for the Mississippi
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 64
Malvern Hill
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 67
The Victor of Antietam
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 69
Battle of Stone River
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 73
Running the Batteries
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 75
Stonewall Jackson
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 79
Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian)
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 81
Gettysburg
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 84
The House-top
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 86
Look-out Mountain
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 88
Chattanooga
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 90
The Armies of the Wilderness
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 93
On the Photograph of a Corps Commander
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 105
The Swamp Angel
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 107
The Battle for the Bay
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 110
Sheridan at Cedar Creek
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 116
In the Prison Pen
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 118
The College Colonel
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 120
The Eagle of the Blue
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 122
A Dirge for McPherson
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 124
At the Cannon's Mouth
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 126
The March to the Sea
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 128
The Frenzy in the Wake
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 133
The Fall of Richmond
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 135
The Surrender at Appomattox
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 137
A Canticle
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 138
The Martyr
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 141
"The Coming Storm"
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 143
Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh
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 144
The Muster
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 146
Aurora Borealis
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 148
The released Rebel Prisoner
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 150
A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 153
"Formerly a Slave"
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 154
The Apparition
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 155
Magnanimity Baffled
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 156
On the Slain Collegians
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 157
America
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 160

VERSES INSCRIPTIVE AND MEMORIAL.

On the Home Guards who perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 165
Inscription for Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 166
The Fortitude of the North under the Disaster of the Second Manassas
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 167
On the Men of Maine killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 168
An Epitaph
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 169
Inscription for Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 170
The Mound by the Lake
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 171
On the Slain at Chickamauga
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 172
An uninscribed Monument on one of the Battle-fields of the Wilderness
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 173
On Sherman's Men who fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 174
On the Grave of a young Cavalry Officer killed in the Valley of Virginia
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 175
A Requiem for Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 176
On a natural Monument in a Field of Georgia
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 178
Commemorative of a Naval Victory
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 180
Presentation to the Authorities by Privates of Colors captured in Battles ending in the Surrender of Lee
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 182
The returned Volunteer to his Rifle
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 183
The Scout toward Aldie
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 187
Lee in the Capitol
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 217
A Meditation
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 239
Notes
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 245
Supplement
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 259
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