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Herman Melville. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Table of Contents
Verses Inscriptive and Memorial
Misgivings
(1860.)
(1860–1.)
Apathy and Enthusiasm
(1860–1.) I
II
The March into Virginia,
Ending in the First Manassas (July, 1861.)
Lyon
Battle of Springfield, Missouri (August, 1861.)
Ball's Bluff
A Reverie (October, 1861.)
Dupont's Round Fight
(November, 1861.)
An Old Sailor's Lament (December, 1861.)
Donelson
(February, 1862.)
The Cumberland
(March, 1862.)
In the Turret
(March, 1862.)
The Temeraire.[3]
A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight
Shiloh
A Requiem (April, 1862.)
The Battle for the Mississipppi
(April, 1862.)
Malvern Hill
(July, 1862.)
The Victor of Antietam.[5]
(1862.)
Battle of Stone River, Tennessee
A View from Oxford Cloisters (January, 1863.)
Running the Batteries,
As observed from the Anchorage above Vicksburgh (April, 1863.)
Stonewall Jackson
Mortally wounded at Chancellorsville (May, 1863.)
Stonewall Jackson
(Ascribed to a Virginian.)
Gettysburg
The Check (July, 1863.)
The House-top
A Night Piece (July, 1863.)
Look-out Mountain
The Night Fight (November, 1863.)
Chattanooga
(November, 1863.)
The Armies of the Wilderness
(1683–64.) I
II
On the Photograph of a Corps Commander
The Swamp Angel.[11]
The Battle for the Bay
(August, 1864.)
Sheridan at Cedar Creek
(October, 1864.)
In the Prison Pen
(1864.)
The College Colonel
The Eagle of the Blue.[12]
A Dirge for McPherson,[13]
Killed in front of Atlanta (July, 1864.)
At the Cannon's Mouth
Destruction of the Ram Albermarle by the Torpedo-Launch (October, 1864.)
The March to the Sea
(December, 1864.)
The Frenzy in the Wake.[14]
Sherman's advance through the Carolinas (February, 1865.)
The Fall of Richmond
The tidings received in the Northern Metropolis (April, 1865.)
The Surrender at Appomattox
(April, 1865.)
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 (May, 1865.)
Aurora-Borealis
Commemorative of the Dissolution of Armies at the Peace (May, 1865.)
The Released Rebel Prisoner.[18]
(June, 1865.)
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
I
II
III
IV
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
Lee in the Capitol
Lee in the Capitol.[24]
(April, 1866.)
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
