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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Herman Melville

Chapter 27: Verses Inscriptive and Memorial
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BATTLE-PIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR.

By Herman Melville.

1866

CONTENTS

Misgivings
The Conflict of Convictions
Apathy and Enthusiasm
The March into Virginia
Lyon
Ball's Bluff
Dupont's Round Fight
The Stone Fleet
Donelson
The Cumberland
In the Turret
The Temeraire
A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight
Shiloh
The Battle for the Mississipppi
Malvern Hill
The Victor of Antietam
Battle of Stone River
Running the Batteries
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian)
Gettysburg
The House-top
Look-out Mountain
Chattanooga
The Armies of the Wilderness
On the Photograph of a Corps Commander
The Swamp Angel
The Battle for the Bay
Sheridan at Cedar Creek
In the Prison Pen
The College Colonel
The Eagle of the Blue
A Dirge for McPherson
At the Cannon's Mouth
The March to the Sea
The Frenzy in the Wake
The Fall of Richmond
The Surrender at Appomattox
A Canticle
The Martyr
"The Coming Storm"
Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh
The Muster
Aurora-Borealis
The Released Rebel Prisoner
A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia
"Formerly a Slave."
The Apparition
Magnanimity Baffled
On the Slain Collegians
America

Verses Inscriptive and Memorial

On the Home Guards who perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri
Inscription for Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas
The Fortitude of the North Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas
On the Men of Maine killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
An Epitaph
Inscription for Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg
The Mound by the Lake
On the Slain at Chickamauga
An uninscribed Monument on one of the Battle-fields of the Wilderness
On Sherman's Men Who fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia
On the Grave of a young Cavalry Officer killed in the Valley of Virginia
A Requiem for Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports
On a natural Monument in a field of Georgia
Commemorative of a Naval Victory
Presentation to the Authorities, by Privates, of Colors captured in Battles ending in the Surrender of Lee
The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle
Lee in the Capitol
A Meditation