About this book
"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, 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 Fathers" (Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Chapters (57)
1Misgivings
2The Conflict of Convictions
3Apathy and Enthusiasm
4The March into Virginia
5Lyon
6Ball's Bluff
7Dupont's Round Fight
8The Stone Fleet
9Donelson
10The Cumberland
11In the Turret
12The Temeraire
13A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight
14Shiloh
15The battle for the Mississippi
16Malvern Hill
17The Victor of Antietam
18Battle of Stone River
19Running the Batteries
20Stonewall Jackson
21Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian)
22Gettysburg
23The House-top
24Look-out Mountain
25Chattanooga
26The Armies of the Wilderness
27On the Photograph of a Corps Commander
28The Swamp Angel
29The Battle for the Bay
30Sheridan at Cedar Creek
31In the Prison Pen
32The College Colonel
33The Eagle of the Blue
34A Dirge for McPherson
35At the Cannon's Mouth
36The March to the Sea
37The Frenzy in the Wake
38The Fall of Richmond
39The Surrender at Appomattox
40A Canticle
41The Martyr
42"The Coming Storm"
43Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh
44The Muster
45Aurora-Borealis
46The Released Rebel Prisoner
47A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia
48"Formerly a Slave"
49The Apparition
50Magnanimity Baffled
51On the Slain Collegians
52America
53Verses Inscriptive and Memorial
54Presentation to the Authorities
55The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle
56Lee in the Capitol
57A Meditation
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