Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Herman Melville
58 chapters · 3 h 18 min · English
Read by Alan Mapstone, Bruce Kachuk, nighthawks, earl, Stefan Von Blon, Agnes Robert Behr and others
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"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
1 Dedication 3 min 2 Misgivings 1 min 3 The Conflict of Convictions 6 min 4 Apathy and Enthusiasm 2 min 5 The March into Virginia 3 min 6 Lyon 4 min 7 Ball's Bluff 2 min 8 Dupont's Round Fight 1 min 9 The Stone Fleet 2 min 10 Donelson 27 min 11 The Cumberland 2 min 12 In the Turret 2 min 13 The Temeraire 3 min 14 A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight 2 min 15 Shiloh 1 min 16 The battle for the Mississippi 3 min 17 Malvern Hill 2 min 18 The Victor of Antietam 4 min 19 Battle of Stone River 3 min 20 Running the Batteries 6 min 21 Stonewall Jackson 2 min 22 Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian) 4 min 23 Gettysburg 2 min 24 The House-top 2 min 25 Look-out Mountain 2 min 26 Chattanooga 4 min 27 The Armies of the Wilderness 12 min 28 On the Photograph of a Corps Commander 2 min 29 The Swamp Angel 3 min 30 The Battle for the Bay 7 min 31 Sheridan at Cedar Creek 2 min 32 In the Prison Pen 2 min 33 The College Colonel 2 min 34 The Eagle of the Blue 1 min 35 A Dirge for McPherson 1 min 36 At the Cannon's Mouth 2 min 37 The March to the Sea 4 min 38 The Frenzy in the Wake 2 min 39 The Fall of Richmond 1 min 40 The Surrender at Appomattox 2 min 41 A Canticle 3 min 42 The Martyr 2 min 43 The Coming Storm 1 min 44 Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh 3 min 45 The Muster 2 min 46 Aurora-Borealis 1 min 47 The Released Rebel Prisoner 2 min 48 A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia 1 min 49 Formerly a Slave 1 min 50 The Apparition 1 min 51 Magnanimity Baffled 1 min 52 On the Slain Collegians 3 min 53 America 2 min 54 Verses Inscriptive and Memorial 14 min 55 Presentation to the Authorities 2 min 56 The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle 1 min 57 Lee in the Capitol 15 min 58 A Meditation 5 min
