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Title
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Author
Herman Melville
Year
1866
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
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Contents.
PAGE
Chapters
(not listed in original)
The Portent
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Misgivings
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13
The Conflict of Convictions
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14
Apathy and Enthusiasm
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19
The March into Virginia
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22
Lyon
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24
Ball's Bluff
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28
Dupont's Round Fight
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30
The Stone Fleet
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31
Donelson
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33
The Cumberland
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53
In the Turret
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55
The Temeraire
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58
A utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight
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61
Shiloh
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63
The Battle for the Mississippi
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64
Malvern Hill
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67
The Victor of Antietam
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69
Battle of Stone River
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73
Running the Batteries
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75
Stonewall Jackson
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79
Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian)
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81
Gettysburg
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84
The House-top
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86
Look-out Mountain
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88
Chattanooga
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90
The Armies of the Wilderness
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93
On the Photograph of a Corps Commander
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105
The Swamp Angel
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107
The Battle for the Bay
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110
Sheridan at Cedar Creek
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In the Prison Pen
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The College Colonel
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The Eagle of the Blue
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A Dirge for McPherson
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At the Cannon's Mouth
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The March to the Sea
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The Frenzy in the Wake
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The Fall of Richmond
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The Surrender at Appomattox
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A Canticle
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The Martyr
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"The Coming Storm"
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Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh
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The Muster
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Aurora Borealis
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The released Rebel Prisoner
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A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia
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"Formerly a Slave"
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The Apparition
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Magnanimity Baffled
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On the Slain Collegians
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America
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VERSES INSCRIPTIVE AND MEMORIAL.
On the Home Guards who perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri
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165
Inscription for Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas
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The Fortitude of the North under the Disaster of the Second Manassas
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On the Men of Maine killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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An Epitaph
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Inscription for Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg
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The Mound by the Lake
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On the Slain at Chickamauga
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An uninscribed Monument on one of the Battle-fields of the Wilderness
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On Sherman's Men who fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia
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On the Grave of a young Cavalry Officer killed in the Valley of Virginia
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A Requiem for Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports
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On a natural Monument in a Field of Georgia
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Commemorative of a Naval Victory
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Presentation to the Authorities by Privates of Colors captured in Battles ending in the Surrender of Lee
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The returned Volunteer to his Rifle
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The Scout toward Aldie
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Lee in the Capitol
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A Meditation
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Notes
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Supplement
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