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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

"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)

Genre(s): Single author

Language: English

Keyword(s): poetry (1794), civil war (146)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Dedication	Alan Mapstone	00:02:55
Play 01	Misgivings	Alan Mapstone	00:01:29
Play 02	The Conflict of Convictions	Alan Mapstone	00:05:38
Play 03	Apathy and Enthusiasm	Bruce Kachuk	00:02:24
Play 04	The March into Virginia	nighthawks	00:02:59
Play 05	Lyon	earl	00:04:12
Play 06	Ball's Bluff	earl	00:01:44
Play 07	Dupont's Round Fight	Stefan Von Blon	00:01:16
Play 08	The Stone Fleet	Agnes Robert Behr	00:02:08
Play 09	Donelson	Alan Mapstone	00:26:47
Play 10	The Cumberland	Agnes Robert Behr	00:02:00
Play 11	In the Turret	George Banfield	00:02:24
Play 12	The Temeraire	George Banfield	00:02:48
Play 13	A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight	nighthawks	00:02:18
Play 14	Shiloh	Bruce Kachuk	00:01:18
Play 15	The battle for the Mississippi	jramd	00:03:19
Play 16	Malvern Hill	Megan	00:01:44
Play 17	The Victor of Antietam	Alan Mapstone	00:04:27
Play 18	Battle of Stone River	Alan Mapstone	00:03:00
Play 19	Running the Batteries	nighthawks	00:06:03
Play 20	Stonewall Jackson	Alan Mapstone	00:01:34
Play 21	Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian)	nighthawks	00:04:00
Play 22	Gettysburg	Navya	00:02:00
Play 23	The House-top	Navya	00:01:49
Play 24	Look-out Mountain	Bruce Kachuk	00:01:30
Play 25	Chattanooga	Adrian Stephens	00:03:40
Play 26	The Armies of the Wilderness	Adrian Stephens	00:11:39
Play 27	On the Photograph of a Corps Commander	Adrian Stephens	00:01:31
Play 28	The Swamp Angel	Adrian Stephens	00:02:45
Play 29	The Battle for the Bay	Adrian Stephens	00:07:24
Play 30	Sheridan at Cedar Creek	Alan Mapstone	00:02:18
Play 31	In the Prison Pen	Stefan Von Blon	00:01:49
Play 32	The College Colonel	KerrySL	00:01:51
Play 33	The Eagle of the Blue	KerrySL	00:01:19
Play 34	A Dirge for McPherson	Micky Ferguson	00:01:25
Play 35	At the Cannon's Mouth	Micky Ferguson	00:01:53
Play 36	The March to the Sea	Anthony Will	00:03:30
Play 37	The Frenzy in the Wake	Anthony Will	00:01:33
Play 38	The Fall of Richmond	Anthony Will	00:01:18
Play 39	The Surrender at Appomattox	Stefan Von Blon	00:01:37
Play 40	A Canticle	Majenko	00:02:55
Play 41	The Martyr	Larry Wilson	00:01:46
Play 42	"The Coming Storm"	Stacey Malcolm	00:01:08
Play 43	Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh	Alan Mapstone	00:02:54
Play 44	The Muster	Heather McKee	00:01:52
Play 45	Aurora-Borealis	Larry Wilson	00:01:12
Play 46	The Released Rebel Prisoner	Larry Wilson	00:02:15
Play 47	A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia	Heather McKee	00:01:17
Play 48	"Formerly a Slave"	Bruce Kachuk	00:01:05
Play 49	The Apparition	Bruce Kachuk	00:01:04
Play 50	Magnanimity Baffled	Larry Wilson	00:01:08
Play 51	On the Slain Collegians	BobbyBreadshower	00:02:54
Play 52	America	BobbyBreadshower	00:02:28
Play 53	Verses Inscriptive and Memorial	Sheridan Alistair	00:14:19
Play 54	Presentation to the Authorities	Alan Mapstone	00:01:35
Play 55	The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle	Bruce Kachuk	00:00:53
Play 56	Lee in the Capitol	Alan Mapstone	00:15:16
Play 57	A Meditation	Alan Mapstone	00:04:51

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