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Section 2: Battlefields

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Documents

Emily Dickinson, various poems (1860–1863)

George Moses Horton, from Naked Genius (1865): 

– “The Dying Soldier’s Message”

– “Execution of Private Henry Anderson”

– “The Spectator of the Battle of Belmont”

– “The Terrors of War”

Walt Whitman, from Drum-Taps (1865), “Camps of Green”

Herman Melville, from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866):

– “Malvern Hill”

– “The Swamp Angel”

William T. Sherman, from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman (1875), Chapter 24: Conclusion – Military Lessons of the War

Sam R. Watkins, from Co. Aytch (1882), Chapter 8: “Chattanooga”

Walt Whitman, from Specimen Days (1882):

– “The Weather. – Does It Sympathize with These Times?”

– “Two Brothers, One South, One North”

Ulysses S. Grant, from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885–1886), Chapter 67: Negotiations at Appomattox – Lee’s Surrender

Helen Hunt Jackson, from Sonnets and Lyrics (1886), “Songs of Battle”

Ambrose Bierce, from Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891):

– “A Horseman in the Sky”

– “A Son of the Gods”

Ambrose Bierce, from Can Such Things Be? (1893):

– “One of the Missing”

– “A Tough Tussle”

Ambrose Bierce, from Bits of Autobiography (1909), “On a Mountain”

Stephen Crane, from The Little Regiment (1896)

– “A Gray Sleeve”

– “A Mystery of Heroism”

Jack London, from The Night-Born (1913), “War”

Author Biographies

Bierce, Ambrose

Crane, Stephen

Dickinson, Emily

Grant, Ulysses S.

Jackson, Helen Hunt

Horton, George Moses        

London, Jack

Melville, Herman

Watkins, Sam R.

Whitman, Walt