Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
By Herman Melville
Length4h 41m
About this audiobook
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first book of poetry published by American author Herman Melville. 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 Country" and its 72 poems deal with the battles and personalities of the American Civil War and their aftermath. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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GenreHistory
Length4 hrs 41 mins
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Publish dateSep 18, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.
2The Portent.
3Misgivings.
4The Conflict of Convictions.[1]
5Apathy and Enthusiasm.
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6The March into Virginia,
7Lyon.
8Ball's Bluff.
9Dupont's Round Fight.
10The Stone Fleet.[2]
11Donelson.
12The Cumberland.
13In the Turret.
14The Temeraire.[3]
15A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight.
16Shiloh.
17The Battle for the Mississipppi.
18Malvern Hill.
19The Victor of Antietam.[5]
20Battle of Stone River, Tennessee.
21Running the Batteries,
22Stonewall Jackson.
23Stonewall Jackson.
24Gettysburg.
25The House-top.
26Look-out Mountain.
27Chattanooga.
28The Armies of the Wilderness.
29On the Photograph of a Corps Commander.
30The Swamp Angel.[11]
31The Battle for the Bay.
32Sheridan at Cedar Creek.
33In the Prison Pen.
34The College Colonel.
35The Eagle of the Blue.[12]
36A Dirge for McPherson,[13]
37At the Cannon's Mouth.
38The March to the Sea.
39The Frenzy in the Wake.[14]
40The Fall of Richmond.
41The Surrender at Appomattox.
42A Canticle:
43The Martyr.
44"The Coming Storm:"
45Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh:[16]
46The Muster:[17]
47Aurora-Borealis.
48The Released Rebel Prisoner.[18]
49A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia.[19]
50"Formerly a Slave."
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