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.
31The Battle for the Bay.
2The Portent.
32Sheridan at Cedar Creek.
3Misgivings.
33In the Prison Pen.
4The Conflict of Convictions.[1]
34The College Colonel.
5Apathy and Enthusiasm.
35The Eagle of the Blue.[12]
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6The March into Virginia,
36A Dirge for McPherson,[13]
7Lyon.
37At the Cannon's Mouth.
8Ball's Bluff.
38The March to the Sea.
9Dupont's Round Fight.
39The Frenzy in the Wake.[14]
10The Stone Fleet.[2]
40The Fall of Richmond.
11Donelson.
41The Surrender at Appomattox.
12The Cumberland.
42A Canticle:
13In the Turret.
43The Martyr.
14The Temeraire.[3]
44"The Coming Storm:"
15A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight.
45Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh:[16]
16Shiloh.
46The Muster:[17]
17The Battle for the Mississipppi.
47Aurora-Borealis.
18Malvern Hill.
48The Released Rebel Prisoner.[18]
19The Victor of Antietam.[5]
49A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia.[19]
20Battle of Stone River, Tennessee.
50"Formerly a Slave."
21Running the Batteries,
51The Apparition.
22Stonewall Jackson.
52Magnanimity Baffled.
23Stonewall Jackson.
53On the Slain Collegians.[20]
24Gettysburg.
54America.
25The House-top.
55Verses
26Look-out Mountain.
56The Scout toward Aldie.
27Chattanooga.
57Lee in the Capitol.
28The Armies of the Wilderness.
58A Meditation:
29On the Photograph of a Corps Commander.
59Supplement.
30The Swamp Angel.[11]
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