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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

by Herman Melville

English· 03:18:10· 58 chapters
"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)
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Dedication

    02:55
  2. Chapter 2

    Misgivings

    01:29
  3. Chapter 3

    The Conflict of Convictions

    05:38
  4. Chapter 4

    Apathy and Enthusiasm

    02:24
  5. Chapter 5

    The March into Virginia

    02:59
  6. Chapter 6

    Lyon

    04:12
  7. Chapter 7

    Ball's Bluff

    01:44
  8. Chapter 8

    Dupont's Round Fight

    01:16
  9. Chapter 9

    The Stone Fleet

    02:08
  10. Chapter 10

    Donelson

    26:47
  11. Chapter 11

    The Cumberland

    02:00
  12. Chapter 12

    In the Turret

    02:24
  13. Chapter 13

    The Temeraire

    02:48
  14. Chapter 14

    A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight

    02:18
  15. Chapter 15

    Shiloh

    01:18
  16. Chapter 16

    The battle for the Mississippi

    03:19
  17. Chapter 17

    Malvern Hill

    01:44
  18. Chapter 18

    The Victor of Antietam

    04:27
  19. Chapter 19

    Battle of Stone River

    03:00
  20. Chapter 20

    Running the Batteries

    06:03
  21. Chapter 21

    Stonewall Jackson

    01:34
  22. Chapter 22

    Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian)

    04:00
  23. Chapter 23

    Gettysburg

    02:00
  24. Chapter 24

    The House-top

    01:49
  25. Chapter 25

    Look-out Mountain

    01:30
  26. Chapter 26

    Chattanooga

    03:40
  27. Chapter 27

    The Armies of the Wilderness

    11:39
  28. Chapter 28

    On the Photograph of a Corps Commander

    01:31
  29. Chapter 29

    The Swamp Angel

    02:45
  30. Chapter 30

    The Battle for the Bay

    07:24
  31. Chapter 31

    Sheridan at Cedar Creek

    02:18
  32. Chapter 32

    In the Prison Pen

    01:49
  33. Chapter 33

    The College Colonel

    01:51
  34. Chapter 34

    The Eagle of the Blue

    01:19
  35. Chapter 35

    A Dirge for McPherson

    01:25
  36. Chapter 36

    At the Cannon's Mouth

    01:53
  37. Chapter 37

    The March to the Sea

    03:30
  38. Chapter 38

    The Frenzy in the Wake

    01:33
  39. Chapter 39

    The Fall of Richmond

    01:18
  40. Chapter 40

    The Surrender at Appomattox

    01:37
  41. Chapter 41

    A Canticle

    02:55
  42. Chapter 42

    The Martyr

    01:46
  43. Chapter 43

    "The Coming Storm"

    01:08
  44. Chapter 44

    Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh

    02:54
  45. Chapter 45

    The Muster

    01:52
  46. Chapter 46

    Aurora-Borealis

    01:12
  47. Chapter 47

    The Released Rebel Prisoner

    02:15
  48. Chapter 48

    A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia

    01:17
  49. Chapter 49

    "Formerly a Slave"

    01:05
  50. Chapter 50

    The Apparition

    01:04
  51. Chapter 51

    Magnanimity Baffled

    01:08
  52. Chapter 52

    On the Slain Collegians

    02:54
  53. Chapter 53

    America

    02:28
  54. Chapter 54

    Verses Inscriptive and Memorial

    14:19
  55. Chapter 55

    Presentation to the Authorities

    01:35
  56. Chapter 56

    The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle

    00:53
  57. Chapter 57

    Lee in the Capitol

    15:16
  58. Chapter 58

    A Meditation

    04:51