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