Contents

The lettered code following each title below is keyed to the list of Sources on page 209.

Note

BEFORE THE WAR

How Old Brown Took Harper’s Ferry [PAH]

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Glory Hallelujah! or John Brown’s Body [PAH]

Anonymous

Ye Men of Alabama! [WSC]

John D. Phelan

Arise [SBSP]

C. G. Poynas

1861

A Poem for the Times [SBSP]

John R. Thompson

A Word for the Hour [CWP]

John Greenleaf Whittier

Jefferson D. [PAH]

H. S. Cornwell

Rebels [SBSP]

Anonymous

The Bonnie Blue Flag [SBSP]

Harry Macarthy

Reply to the Bonnie Blue Flag [SS]

Isaac M. Ball

Secession [SS]

Anonymous

Dirge: For One Who Fell in Battle [PAH]

Thomas William Parsons

The Battle-Cry of Freedom [PAH]

George Frederick Root

Dixie All Right [RR7]

Anonymous

Bull Run: A Parody [WSC]

Anonymous

The March into Virginia: Ending in the First Manassas [CWP]

Herman Melville

The War Fever in Baldinsville

The Draft in Baldinsville [AW]

Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne)

Melt the Bells [SBSP]

F. Y. Rockett

“What the Village Bell Said” [SBSP]

John G. M’Lemore

The Little Drummer: A Soldier’s Story [SS]

Richard H. Stoddard

All Quiet Along the Potomac [AQAP]

Ethel Lynn Beers

Thinking of the Soldiers [SBSP]

Anonymous

Only One Killed [SBSP]

Julia L. Keyes

1862

Battle-Hymn of the Republic [JWH]

Julia Ward Howe

Song of the Irish Legion [SS]

James De Mille

Come List, My Boys, Enlist [RR6]

Anonymous

Army-Hymn: “Old Hundred” [SS]

Oliver Wendell Holmes

On Board the Cumberland [PAH]

George Henry Boker

The Turtle [SBSP]

Anonymous

Stonewall Jackson’s Way [WSC]

Anonymous

Shiloh: A Requiem [CWP]

Herman Melville

Epigram: “Whilst Butler plays his silly pranks” [RR6]

Anonymous

The Drummer-Boy of Tennessee [RR6]

Minnie Hart

The Hero of the Drum [RR7]

George W. Bungay

“The Yankee hosts with blood-stained hands” [API]

Anonymous

L-E-G on My Leg [RR6]

Anonymous

Hopeful Tackett—His Mark [TLD]

Richmond Wolcott

Three Hundred Thousand More [CWP]

James Sloan Gibbons

A Bundle of Socks [RR7]

S. E. B.

Dirge for a Soldier: In Memory of General Philip Kearny [RR6]

George Henry Boker

“Ein Feste Burg 1st Unser Gott” (Luther’s Hymn) [CWP]

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Empty Sleeve [WSC]

J. R. Bagby

Joe Parsons, a Maryland Brave [API]

Anonymous

The Sergeant’s Little Story [TLD]

William H. Kemper

Fredericksburgh [RR6]

W F. W

A Day [LMA]

Louisa May Alcott

Oremus [RR6]

George Henry Boker

1863

Mosby at Hamilton [CWP]

Madison Cawein

Stonewall Jackson [CWP]

Herman Melville

“Let Us Cross Over the River”: Jackson’s Last Words [WSC]

Anonymous

The Scout’s Narration [HW]

Anonymous

The Northern Invasion of Lee [RR7]

Anonymous

The Battle of Gettysburg [RR7]

Howard Glyndon

How Are You, General Lee? [SS]

Anonymous

A Midnight Scene at Vicksburg [RR7]

Horace B. Durant

Opening of the Mississippi [RR7]

R. H. Chittenden

The Swamp Angel [RR8]

T N. J.

“I am monarch of all I survey” [RR8]

Anonymous

The Guerillas [SBSP]

S. Teackle Wallis

Barbara Frietchie [CWP]

John Greenleaf Whittier

A Negro-Volunteer Song [SS]

Anonymous

Charge of the Mule Brigade [RR8]

Anonymous

My Dream: To Thomas Carlyle [RR8]

William C. Bennett

Music in Camp [JRT]

John R. Thompson

The War-Christian’s Thanksgiving [WSC]

George H. Miles

The Color Sergeant [RR6]

A. D. F. Randolph

A Mother’s Story [RR6]

Anonymous

Driving Home the Cows [CWP]

Kate Putnam Osgood

Killed at the Ford [CWP]

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1864

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

An Army Corps on the March

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown [LG]

Walt Whitman

The Unknown Dead [WSC]

Henry Timrod

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim [LG]

Walt Whitman

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [CWS]

Ambrose Bierce

The Wound-Dresser [LG]

Walt Whitman

“I Fights Mit Sigel!” [SS]

Grant P. Robinson

Buried Alive [HW]

Anonymous

A Southern Scene [API]

Anonymous

The Contraband’s Return [RR8]

Hermine

The Daring Spy [TSGB]

Anonymous

The Case of George Dedlow [SWM]

Silas Weir Mitchell

Epitaph on John B. Floyd [RR8]

Anonymous

The Silent March [WPS]

Anonymous

1865

A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It [MT]

Mark Twain

The Dog of the Regiment [RR8]

Anonymous

A Soldier’s Letter [RR8]

Mary C. Hovey

Carolina [CWP]

Henry Timrod

O Captain! My Captain! [LG]

Walt Whitman

The Conquered Banner [SBSP]

Abram Joseph Ryan

Why Can Not We Be Brothers? [SBSP]

Clarence Prentice

POST-WAR

True to the Gray [SBSP]

Pearl Rivers

The Confederate Note [WSC]

S. A. Jonas

Rebel Color-Bearers at Shiloh [CWP]

Herman Melville

The Blue and the Gray [CWP]

Francis Miles Finch

The Artilleryman’s Vision [LG]

Walt Whitman

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