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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
By Herman Melville
Length4h 40m
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The bloody scars of the American Civil War are laid bare in this visceral collection of poetic reflections. Melville captures the chaos of the battlefield and the somber silence of the aftermath with haunting clarity. It is a profound exploration of national trauma and the heavy price of reconciliation in a fractured land.
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GenrePoetry
Length4 hrs 40 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 24, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Misgivings.
40A Canticle:
2The Conflict of Convictions.[1]
41The Martyr.
3Apathy and Enthusiasm.
42“The Coming Storm:”
4The March into Virginia,
43Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh:[16]
5Lyon.
44The Muster:[17]
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6Ball’s Bluff.
45Aurora-Borealis.
7Dupont’s Round Fight.
46The Released Rebel Prisoner.[18]
8The Stone Fleet.[2]
47A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia.[19]
9Donelson.
48“Formerly a Slave.”
10The Cumberland.
49The Apparition.
11In the Turret.
50Magnanimity Baffled.
12The Temeraire.[3]
51On the Slain Collegians.[20]
13A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight.
52America.
14Shiloh.
53Verses
15The Battle for the Mississipppi.
54Inscriptive and Memorial
16Malvern Hill.
55On the Home Guards
17The Victor of Antietam.[5]
56Inscription
18Battle of Stone River, Tennessee.
57The Fortitude of the North
19Running the Batteries,
58On the Men of Maine
20Stonewall Jackson.
59An Epitaph.
21Stonewall Jackson.
60Inscription
22Gettysburg.
61The Mound by the Lake.
23The House-top.
62On the Slain at Chickamauga.
24Look-out Mountain.
63An uninscribed Monument
25Chattanooga.
64On Sherman’s Men
26The Armies of the Wilderness.
65On the Grave
27On the Photograph of a Corps Commander.
66A Requiem
28The Swamp Angel.[11]
67On a natural Monument
29The Battle for the Bay.
68Commemorative of a Naval Victory.
30Sheridan at Cedar Creek.
69Presentation to the Authorities,
31In the Prison Pen.
70The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle.
32The College Colonel.
71The Scout toward Aldie.
33The Eagle of the Blue.[12]
72Lee in the Capitol.: Lee in the Capitol.[24]
34A Dirge for McPherson,[13]
73A Meditation:
35At the Cannon’s Mouth.
74Attributed 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.
36The March to the Sea.
75A Meditation.
37The Frenzy in the Wake.[14]
76Supplement.
38The Fall of Richmond.
77IMPRINT | DISCLAIMER
39The Surrender at Appomattox.
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