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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

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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) (3 hr 18 min)

Chapters

Dedication

2:55

Read by Alan Mapstone

Misgivings

1:29

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Conflict of Convictions

5:38

Read by Alan Mapstone

Apathy and Enthusiasm

2:24

Read by Bruce Kachuk

The March into Virginia

2:59

Read by nighthawks

Lyon

4:12

Read by earl

Ball's Bluff

1:44

Read by earl

Dupont's Round Fight

1:16

Read by Stefan Von Blon

The Stone Fleet

2:08

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

Donelson

26:47

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Cumberland

2:00

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

In the Turret

2:24

Read by George Banfield

The Temeraire

2:48

Read by George Banfield

A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight

2:18

Read by nighthawks

Shiloh

1:18

Read by Bruce Kachuk

The battle for the Mississippi

3:19

Read by jramd

Malvern Hill

1:44

Read by Megan

The Victor of Antietam

4:27

Read by Alan Mapstone

Battle of Stone River

3:00

Read by Alan Mapstone

Running the Batteries

6:03

Read by nighthawks

Stonewall Jackson

1:34

Read by Alan Mapstone

Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian)

4:00

Read by nighthawks

Gettysburg

2:00

Read by Navya

The House-top

1:49

Read by Navya

Look-out Mountain

1:30

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Chattanooga

3:40

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Armies of the Wilderness

11:39

Read by Adrian Stephens

On the Photograph of a Corps Commander

1:31

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Swamp Angel

2:45

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Battle for the Bay

7:24

Read by Adrian Stephens

Sheridan at Cedar Creek

2:18

Read by Alan Mapstone

In the Prison Pen

1:49

Read by Stefan Von Blon

The College Colonel

1:51

Read by KerrySL

The Eagle of the Blue

1:19

Read by KerrySL

A Dirge for McPherson

1:25

Read by Micky Ferguson

At the Cannon's Mouth

1:53

Read by Micky Ferguson

The March to the Sea

3:30

Read by Anthony Will

The Frenzy in the Wake

1:33

Read by Anthony Will

The Fall of Richmond

1:18

Read by Anthony Will

The Surrender at Appomattox

1:37

Read by Stefan Von Blon

A Canticle

2:55

Read by Majenko

The Martyr

1:46

Read by Larry Wilson

"The Coming Storm"

1:08

Read by Stacey Malcolm

Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh

2:54

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Muster

1:52

Read by Heather McKee

Aurora-Borealis

1:12

Read by Larry Wilson

The Released Rebel Prisoner

2:15

Read by Larry Wilson

A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia

1:17

Read by Heather McKee

"Formerly a Slave"

1:05

Read by Bruce Kachuk

The Apparition

1:04

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Magnanimity Baffled

1:08

Read by Larry Wilson

On the Slain Collegians

2:54

Read by BobbyBreadshower

America

2:28

Read by BobbyBreadshower

Verses Inscriptive and Memorial

14:19

Read by Sheridan Alistair

Presentation to the Authorities

1:35

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle

0:53

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Lee in the Capitol

15:16

Read by Alan Mapstone

A Meditation

4:51

Read by Alan Mapstone