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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

By Herman Melville

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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.
The Portent.
Contents.
- Verses Inscriptive and Memorial
- Misgivings.
- The Conflict of Convictions.[1]
- Apathy and Enthusiasm.
- The March into Virginia,
  - Ending in the First Manassas.
- Ending in the First Manassas.
- Lyon.
  - Battle of Springfield, Missouri.
- Battle of Springfield, Missouri.
- Ball's Bluff.
  - A Reverie.
- A Reverie.
- Dupont's Round Fight.
- The Stone Fleet.[2]
  - An Old Sailor's Lament.
- An Old Sailor's Lament.
- Donelson.
- The Cumberland.
- In the Turret.
- The Temeraire.[3]
- A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight.
- Shiloh.
  - A Requiem.
- A Requiem.
- The Battle for the Mississipppi.
- Malvern Hill.
- The Victor of Antietam.[5]
- Battle of Stone River, Tennessee.
  - A View from Oxford Cloisters.
- A View from Oxford Cloisters.
- Running the Batteries,
  - As observed from the Anchorage above Vicksburgh.
- As observed from the Anchorage above Vicksburgh.
- Stonewall Jackson.
  - Mortally wounded at Chancellorsville.
- Mortally wounded at Chancellorsville.
- Stonewall Jackson.
  - (Ascribed to a Virginian.)
- (Ascribed to a Virginian.)
- Gettysburg.
  - The Check.
- The Check.
- The House-top.
  - A Night Piece.
- A Night Piece.
- Look-out Mountain.
  - The Night Fight.
- 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.
- Killed in front of Atlanta.
- At the Cannon's Mouth.
  - Destruction of the Ram Albermarle by the Torpedo-Launch.
- 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.
- Sherman's advance through the Carolinas.
- The Fall of Richmond.
  - The tidings received in the Northern Metropolis.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Suggested by the Two Days' Review at Washington
- Aurora-Borealis.
  - Commemorative of the Dissolution of Armies at the Peace.
- 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.
- An idealized Portrait, by E. Vedder, in the Spring Exhibition of the National Academy, 1865.
- The Apparition.
  - (A Retrospect.)
- (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.
- who perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri.
- Inscription
  - for Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas.
- for Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas.
- The Fortitude of the North
  - under the Disaster of the Second Manassas.
- under the Disaster of the Second Manassas.
- On the Men of Maine
  - killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- An Epitaph.
- Inscription
  - for Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg.
- 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 one of the Battle-fields of the Wilderness.
- On Sherman's Men
  - who fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia.
- who fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia.
- On the Grave
  - of a young Cavalry Officer killed in the Valley of Virginia.
- of a young Cavalry Officer killed in the Valley of Virginia.
- A Requiem
  - for Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports.
- for Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports.
- On a natural Monument
  - in a field of Georgia.[21]
- 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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