Poets of the Civil War

by McClatchy, J. D.

• ISBN13: 9781931082761
• ISBN10: 1931082766
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-07
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

A moving anthology that traces the advent, progress, and legacy of the Civil War as revealed in the works of famous poets such as Whitman, Melville, Whittier, and Dickinson, as well as combatants on both sides.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
William Cullen Bryant (1794--1878)
The Death of Slavery	1	(3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)
Boston Hymn	4	(4)
William Gilmore Simms (1806--1870)
Ode---``Do Ye Quail?''	8	(3)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882)
The Witnesses	11	(1)
The Warning	12	(1)
The Cumberland	13	(2)
Killed at the Ford	15	(2)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807--1892)
A Word for the Hour	17	(1)
The Battle Autumn of 1862	18	(2)
Laus Deo	20	(2)
Anniversary Poem	22	(5)
Barbara Frietchie	27	(3)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809--1894)
To Canaan	30	(3)
Julia Ward Howe (1819--1910)
Battle-Hymn of the Republic	33	(2)
James Russell Lowell (1819--1891)
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration	35	(15)
Herman Melville (1819--1891)
The Portent	50	(1)
The March into Virginia	51	(1)
Shiloh	52	(1)
Malvern Hill	53	(1)
The Armies of the Wilderness	54	(9)
The College Colonel	63	(1)
Inscription	64	(1)
A Meditation	65	(3)
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	68	(1)
Bivouac on a Mountain Side	68	(1)
The Artilleryman's Vision	69	(2)
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	71	(1)
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	72	(2)
The Wound-Dresser	74	(4)
Reconciliation	78	(1)
Spirit Whose Work Is Done	79	(1)
O Captain! My Captain!	80	(1)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	81	(13)
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820--1897)
Hymn to the National Flag	94	(2)
A Grave in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond	96	(2)
Henry Howard Brownell (1820--1872)
The Bay Fight	98	(21)
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822--1872)
Sheridan's Ride	119	(3)
Francis Orray Ticknor (1822--1874)
The Virginians of the Valley	122	(1)
Little Giffen	123	(2)
George Henry Boker (1823--1890)
``Blood, blood! The lines of every printed sheet''	125	(1)
``Oh! craven, craven! while my brothers fall''	125	(1)
Dirge for a Soldier	126	(2)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825--1911)
The Slave Auction	128	(2)
John W. De Forest (1826--1906)
from Campaigning	130	(1)
The Storming Column	130	(3)
Ethel Lynn Beers (1827--1879)
All Quiet Along the Potomac [The Picket Guard]	133	(2)
Francis Miles Finch (1827--1907)
The Blue and the Gray	135	(3)
Henry Timrod (1828--1867)
Ethnogenesis	138	(4)
Carolina	142	(3)
Charleston	145	(2)
Carmen Triumphale	147	(2)
The Unknown Dead	149	(2)
Lines	151	(1)
Fitz-James O'Brien (1828--1862)
The Soldier's Letter	152	(4)
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829--1914)
How the Cumberland Went Down	156	(2)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)
``Of Bronze -- and Blaze --''	158	(1)
``If any sink, assure that this, now standing --''	159	(1)
``It feels a shame to be Alive--''	159	(1)
``When I was small, a Woman died--''	160	(1)
``My Portion is Defeat -- today--''	161	(1)
``He fought like those Who've nought to lose--''	162	(1)
Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830--1886)
Vicksburg---A Ballad	163	(2)
Augusta Cooper Bristol (1835--1910)
The Crime of the Ages	165	(2)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836--1907)
Fredericksburg	167	(1)
By the Potomac	168	(1)
Bret Harte (1836--1902)
John Burns of Gettysburg	169	(4)
Relieving Guard	173	(1)
A Second Review of the Grand Army	173	(4)
Abram Joseph Ryan (1838--1886)
The Sword of Robert Lee	177	(2)
James Ryder Randall (1839--1908)
Maryland	179	(3)
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841--1906)
Near the Front	182	(1)
The Marksman's Work	183	(3)
The Merry Truce	186	(2)
Kate Brownlee Sherwood (1841--1914)
Thomas at Chickamauga	188	(5)
Sidney Lanier (1842--1881)
The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson	193	(2)
Ambrose Bierce (1842--1914?)
To E. S. Salomon	195	(3)
A Year's ``Casualties''	198	(1)
The Hesitating Veteran	198	(3)
Sources and Acknowledgments	201	(3)
Notes	204