The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry

by Marius, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780231100021
• ISBN10: 0231100027
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

-- Louis P. Masur, CUNY, and author of The Real War Will Never Get Into Books

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Prayer for Peace	p. 3
Killed at the Ford	p. 6
Ball's Bluff	p. 8
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	p. 10
Dirge for Two Veterans	p. 12
A March in the Ranks Hard-prest, and the Road Unknown	p. 14
The Wound-Dresser	p. 17
All Quiet along the Potomac Tonight	p. 20
A Second Review of the Grand Army	p. 23
The Congressmen Came Out to See Bull Run	p. 27
Two Studies in Idealism	p. 32
From Trollope's Journal	p. 36
General John Cabell Breckinridge	p. 38
At Chancellorsville	p. 41
After the Wilderness	p. 43
Around the Campfire	p. 45
In 'Fifty Congress Passed a Bill	p. 49
John Brown's Body	p. 53
The Battle Hymn of the Republic	p. 55
The Battle-Cry of Freedom	p. 57
My Maryland	p. 59
Carolina Charleston	p. 67
The Death of Slavery	p. 71
Boston Hymn	p. 75
Voluntaries	p. 79
The Building of the Ship	p. 85
The Furnace Blast	p. 99
Laus Deo!	p. 103
Marching through Georgia	p. 106
From Year to Year the Contest Grew	p. 109
Dixie	p. 114
At Harper's Ferry Just before the Attack	p. 116
John Brown's Prayer	p. 120
The Soul and Body of John Brown	p. 123
An Ode in Time of Hesitation	p. 130
Enlisted Today	p. 141
The March into Virginia	p. 144
The Cumberland	p. 147
A Dirge for McPherson	p. 150
The Conflict of Convictions	p. 153
The College Colonel	p. 158
The House-Top	p. 160
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado	p. 162
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	p. 164
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun	p. 166
Beat! Beat! Drums!	p. 168
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	p. 171
Bivouac on a Mountain Side	p. 172
The Artilleryman's Vision	p. 174
An Army Corps on the March	p. 176
Come up from the Fields Father	p. 178
Hospital Duties	p. 180
Sheridan's Ride	p. 184
Sheridan at Cedar Creek	p. 187
Though Tennyson the Poet King	p. 190
The High Tide at Gettysburg	p. 194
The Battle of Gettysburg	p. 198
The Colored Soldiers	p. 206
When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers	p. 211
A Confederate Veteran Tries to Explain the Event	p. 213
Anecdotes of the Late War	p. 217
A Description of Some Confederate Soldiers	p. 225
A Few Days in the South in February	p. 227
Richmond	p. 235
The Civil War	p. 237
Gettysburg, July 1, 1863	p. 238
Serenades in Virginia	p. 242
Burial Detail	p. 246
A Soldier on the Marsh	p. 250
The Portent	p. 255
Little Giffen	p. 256
General Grant - the Hero of the War	p. 258
Memoriae Positum R. G. Shaw	p. 261
Robert E. Lee	p. 265
The Sword of Robert Lee	p. 267
Farragut, Farragut	p. 269
Kentucky Belle	p. 273
Albert Sidney Johnston	p. 279
Lee to the Rear	p. 283
Obsequies of Stuart	p. 288
The Burial of Latane	p. 293
Stonewall Jackson's Way	p. 296
John Burns of Gettysburg	p. 300
Barbara Frietchie	p. 306
The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson	p. 310
Robert Gould Shaw	p. 312
Frederick Douglass	p. 313
Douglass	p. 315
Frederick Douglass	p. 316
The Unsung Heroes	p. 317
Frederick Douglass: 1817-1895	p. 319
Tintype of a Private of the Fifteenth Georgia Infantry	p. 322
Lee in the Mountains	p. 323
The Death of Abraham Lincoln	p. 331
The Martyr	p. 333
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	p. 335
O Captain! My Captain!	p. 345
Lincoln, The Man of the People	p. 348
Anne Rutledge	p. 351
The Master	p. 352
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight	p. 355
Lincoln	p. 357
The Long Shadow of Lincoln	p. 361
Lincoln Monument: Washington	p. 366
The Battle Autumn of 1862	p. 369
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865	p. 372
Malvern Hill	p. 387
Memorial on the Slain at Chickamauga	p. 391
To a Certain Civilian	p. 392
Spirit Whose Work Is Done	p. 393
Music in Camp	p. 394
The Jacket of Gray	p. 399
Gettysburg Ode	p. 402
The Blue and the Gray	p. 411
When Johnny Comes Marching Home	p. 414
Ode ("Sleep sweetly in your humble graves")	p. 417
The Rebel	p. 419
Driving Home the Cows	p. 423
To E. S. Salomon	p. 426
The Confederate Flags	p. 430
The Hesitating Veteran	p. 433
The Death of Grant	p. 436
General B. F. Butler	p. 438
An Address by an Ex-Confederate Soldier to the Grand Army of the Republic	p. 439
To the South	p. 443
Veterans of the Wars	p. 446
Marching Still	p. 448
The Black Cottage	p. 450
Ode to the Confederate Dead	p. 455
Boston Common	p. 460
Memorial Wreath	p. 466
Fabrication of Ancestors	p. 469
For the Union Dead	p. 471
This Year's Drive to Appomattox	p. 476
The Arkansas Testament	p. 478
An Uninscribed Monument on One of the Battlefields of the Wilderness	p. 495
Shiloh, a Requiem	p. 497
A Grave in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond (J. R. T.)	p. 498
Confederate Memorial Day	p. 501
Lincoln's Grave	p. 503
Cool Tombs	p. 517
Gettysburg	p. 518
History among the Rocks	p. 521
Sequel of Appomattox	p. 523
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	p. 525
Acknowledgments	p. 527
Illustrations	p. 531
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines	p. 535
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