American Civil War. Finseth, Ian Frederick. Table of Contents ISBN-13:

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1 American Civil War Finseth, Ian Frederick ISBN-13: Table of Contents Acknowledgements Illustrations List Introduction: The Written War I. ORIGINS Herman Melville from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) "The Portent" "Misgivings" from Collect (1882) "Origins of Attempted Secession" Ulysses S. Grant from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant ( ) Chapter XVI à â â œ Resignation à â â œ Private Life à â â œ Life at Galena à â â œ The Coming Crisis Jefferson Davis "Speech in U.S. Senate (Farewell Address)" (Jan. 21, 1861) Henry Timrod "Ethnogenesis" (February 1861) Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address (Mar. 4, 1861) Mary Boykin Chesnut from A Diary from Dixie (1905) Chapter 2: Montgomery, Ala., February 19, 1861 à â â œ March 11, 1861 from Drum-Taps (1865) "Drum-Taps" Emily Dickinson "A Day! Help! Help!" (1859) "Success à â â œ is counted sweetest" (1859, 1862) II. BATTLEFIELDS

2 Herman Melville from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) "The March into Virginia" "A Utilitarian Account of the Monitorà â â s Fight with the Merrimac" "Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862)" "Malvern Hill (July, 1862)" "The Swamp Angel" George Moses Horton from Naked Genius (1865) "The Dying Soldierà â â s Message" "Execution of Private Henry Anderson" "The Spectator of the Battle of Belmont, November 6, 1863" "The Terrors of War" Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt "Hearing the Battleà â â July 21, 1861" (1864) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Cumberland" (December 1862) "Killed at the Ford" (April 1866) Lucy Larcom from Songs for War Time (1863) "The Sinking of the Merrimack" from Specimen Days (1882) "A Night Battle, Over a Week Since" "A Glimpse of Warà â â s Hell-Scenes" "The Weather. à â â œ Does It Sympathize with These Times?" "Two Brothers, One South, One North" from Drum-Taps (1865) "By the Bivouacà â â s Fitful Flame" "The Dresser" "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" "Camps of Green" S. Weir Mitchell "The Case of George Dedlow" (1866) Helen Hunt Jackson from Sonnets and Lyrics (1886) "Songs of Battle" Louisa May Alcott from Hospital Sketches (1863)

3 Chapter III: "A Day" Abraham Lincoln "Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery" (Nov. 19, 1863) Emily Dickinson "To fight aloud is very brave à â â œ" (1860) "The name à â â œ of it à â â œ is à â ËœAutumnà â â à â â œ" (1862) "Whole Gulfs à â â œ of Red, and Fleets à â â œ of Red à â â œ" (1862) "They dropped like Flakes à â â œ" (1863) "If any sink, assure that this, now standing à â â œ" (1863) "The Battle fought between the Soul" (1862) "My Portion is Defeat à â â œ today à â â œ" (1863) "The hallowing of Pain" (1863) Ambrose Bierce from Bits of Autobiography (1909) "On a Mountain" from Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) "A Horseman in the Sky" "A Son of the Gods" "One of the Missing" from Can Such Things Be? (1893) "A Tough Tussle" Stephen Crane from The Little Regiment, and Other Stories of the American Civil War (1896) "A Gray Sleeve" "An Episode of War" "A Mystery of Heroism" Ulysses S. Grant from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant ( ) Chapter 67: Negotiations at Appomattox à â â œ Interview with Lee at McLeanà â â s House à â â œ The Terms of Surrender à â â œ Leeà â â s Surrender à â â œ Interview with Lee after the Surrender William T. Sherman from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Written by Himself (1875) Chapter 24: Conclusion à â â œ Military Lessons of the War III. AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE George Moses Horton

4 from Naked Genius (1865) "The Slave" Susie King Taylor Reminiscences of My Life in Camp (1902) Thomas Wentworth Higginson from Army Life in a Black Regiment (1869) "Camp Diary" Rebecca Harding Davis "John Lamar" (1862) Abraham Lincoln "Final Emancipation Proclamation" (Sept. 22, 1862) Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Emancipation Proclamation" (1862) "Boston Hymn" (1863) "Voluntaries" (1863) Frederick Douglass "The Mission of the War" (1863) Louisa May Alcott from Hospital Sketches and Camp and Fireside Stories (1869) "My Contraband" Charles Chesnutt from The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line (1899) "Cicelyà â â s Dream" Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Deserted Plantation" "When Dey à â ËœListed Colored Soldiers" (August 1899) "Robert Gould Shaw" (October 1900) W. E. B. Du Bois from The Souls of Black Folk (1903) Chapter 1: Of Our Spiritual Strivings Chapter 2: Of the Dawn of Freedom IV. THE CIVIL WAR IN SONG Daniel Emmett "Dixieà â â s Land" (1859, 1860) Anonymous "John Brownà â â s Body" (1859?) Septimus Winner "Abrahamà â â s Daughter (Raw Recruits)" (1861)

5 A. E. Blackmar "Allons Enfans (The Southern Marseillaise)" (1861) William B. Bradbury "Marching Along" (1861) Ethel Lynn Beers "All Quiet Along the Potomac" (1861) Harry McCarthy "The Bonnie Blue Flag" (1861) Julia Ward Howe "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1862) Walter Kittredge "Tenting on the Old Campground" (1862) Charles Carroll Sawyer and Henry Tucker "Weeping, Sad and Lonely; or, When This Cruel War Is Over" (1862) Anonymous "Parody on When this Cruel War is Over" A. E. Blackmar "Goober Peas" (1866) M. B. Smith "The Battle of Shiloh Hill" (1863) Patrick S. Gilmore "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (1863) George F. Root "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Prisonerà â â s Hope)" (1863) "Just Before the Battle, Mother" Henry C. Work "Marching through Georgia" (1865) Thomas Wentworth Higginson "Negro Spirituals" (1867) V. THE HOME FRONT Harriet Beecher Stowe "The Chimney-Corner" (January 1865) Nathaniel Hawthorne "Chiefly about War-Matters" (July 1862) Julia Ward Howe "Our Orders" Lucy Larcom "Weaving"

6 "A Loyal Womanà â â s No" Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt "Giving Back the Flower" (1867) from Drum-Taps (1865) "Come Up from the Fields Father" Kate Chopin from Bayou Folk (1894) "A Wizard from Gettysburg" (1892) Henry James "The Story of a Year" (March 1865) Harold Frederic from Marsena and Other Stories of the Wartime (1894) "The War Widow" Hamlin Garland from Main-Travelled Roads (1891) "The Return of a Private" VI. REMEMBRANCE AND FORGETTING Abraham Lincoln "Second Inaugural Address" (March 4, 1865) John Wilkes Booth To Mary Ann Holmes Booth (November 1864) To the Editors of National Intelligencer (April 14, 1865) diary entries (April 17, 1865; April 22, 1865) from Sequel to Drum-Taps ( ) "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloomà â â d" from Drum-Taps (1865) "The Veteranà â â s Vision" from Specimen Days (1882) "The Million Dead, Too, Summà â â d Up" "The Real War Will Never Get in the Books" Edward Alfred Pollard from The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (1867) Francis Miles Finch "The Blue and the Gray" (Sept. 1867) Herman Melville from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) "An Uninscribed Monument"

7 "A Requiem" "On a Natural Monument" Frederick Douglass "Address on the Unknown Dead" (1871) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Memorial Day" (1895) D. B. Lucas "In the Land Where We Were Dreaming" Ambrose Bierce from Antepenultimata (1912) "A Bivouac of the Dead" (1903) Albion Tourgàe "The South as a Field for Fiction" Jefferson Davis "Speech before Mississippi Legislature in Jackson, Mississippi" (March 10, 1884) Sidney Lanier "The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson" (Sept. 1865) "Laughter in the Senate" "Resurrection" Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt "Army of Occupation" (1866) "Over in Kentucky" "Another War" "The Grave at Frankfort" Lizette Woodworth Reese from Spicewood (1920) "A War Memory" (1865) Joel Chandler Harris from Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings (1880) "A Story of the War" (1877) Samuel R. Watkins from Co. Aytch (1882) Chapter 1: Retrospective Chapter 8: Chattanooga Chapter 17: The Surrender Stephen Crane from The Little Regiment, and Other Episodes of the American Civil War (1896) "The Veteran" from War Is Kind (1896)

8 "War is Kind" (1896) "The Battle Hymn" Emily Dickinson "My Triumph lasted till the Drums" (1871) "Ã â ËœTis Seasons since the Dimpled War" (1881) Glossary The Writers Index