The American Civil War
An Anthology of Essential Writings
Published on 6. July 2006
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646 pages
978-0-415-97744-9 (ISBN)
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This anthology brings together a wide variety of both well-known and more obscure writing from and about the Civil War, along with supplementary appendices to facilitate its use in courses.
The selections include short fiction, poetry, public addresses, diary entries, song lyrics, and essays from such figures as Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, and Louisa May Alcott, as well as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant. The writing not only includes those directly involved in the war, but also those writing about the war afterward, to include the perspective of historical memory.
This collection makes a perfect addition to any course on Civil War history or literature as well as courses on popular memory.
The selections include short fiction, poetry, public addresses, diary entries, song lyrics, and essays from such figures as Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, and Louisa May Alcott, as well as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant. The writing not only includes those directly involved in the war, but also those writing about the war afterward, to include the perspective of historical memory.
This collection makes a perfect addition to any course on Civil War history or literature as well as courses on popular memory.
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For those of us who teach this option at Advanced Higher, this book takes you beyond the confines of the syllabus required for examination purposes and shows the totality and variety of the impact of that conflict and gives a different perspective on events ... I cannot commend this book highly enough.' - History Teaching ReviewMore details
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English
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London
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Width: 178 mm
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1111 gr
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Ian Frederick Finseth is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan at Dearborn.
Content
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
List Introduction: The Written War
I. ORIGINS
Herman Melville
from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
"The Portent"
"Misgivings"
Walt Whitman
from Collect (1882)
"Origins of Attempted Secession"
Ulysses S. Grant
from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885-86)
Chapter XVI - Resignation - Private Life - Life at Galena - 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 - March 11, 1861
Walt Whitman
from Drum-Taps (1865)
"Drum-Taps"
Emily Dickinson
"A Day! Help! Help!" (1859)
"Success - is counted sweetest" (1859, 1862)
II. BATTLEFIELDS
Herman Melville
from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
"The March into Virginia"
"A Utilitarian Account of the Monitor'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 Soldier'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 Battle-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"
Walt Whitman
from Specimen Days (1882)
"A Night Battle, Over a Week Since"
"A Glimpse of War's Hell-Scenes"
"The Weather. - Does It Sympathize with These Times?"
"Two Brothers, One South, One North"
from Drum-Taps (1865)
"By the Bivouac'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)
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 -" (1860)
"The name - of it - is `Autumn' -" (1862)
"Whole Gulfs - of Red, and Fleets - of Red -" (1862)
"They dropped like Flakes -" (1863)
"If any sink, assure that this, now standing -" (1863)
"The Battle fought between the Soul" (1862)
"My Portion is Defeat - today -" (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 (1885-86)
Chapter 67: Negotiations at Appomattox - Interview with Lee at McLean's House - The Terms of Surrender - Lee's Surrender - Interview with Lee after the Surrender
William T. Sherman
from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Written by Himself (1875)
Chapter 24: Conclusion - Military Lessons of the War
III. AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
George Moses Horton
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)
"Cicely's Dream"
Paul Laurence Dunbar
"The Deserted Plantation"
"When Dey `Listed 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
"Dixie's Land" (1859, 1860)
Anonymous
"John Brown's Body" (1859?)
Septimus Winner
"Abraham's Daughter (Raw Recruits)" (1861)
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 Prisoner'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"
"A Loyal Woman's No"
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
"Giving Back the Flower" (1867)
Walt Whitman
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)
Walt Whitman
from Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865-66)
"When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd"
from Drum-Taps (1865)
"The Veteran's Vision"
from Specimen Days (1882)
"The Million Dead, Too, Summ'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"
"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 Tourgee
"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)
"War is Kind" (1896)
"The Battle Hymn"
Emily Dickinson
"My Triumph lasted till the Drums" (1871)
"`Tis Seasons since the Dimpled War" (1881)
Glossary
The Writers
Index
Illustrations
List Introduction: The Written War
I. ORIGINS
Herman Melville
from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
"The Portent"
"Misgivings"
Walt Whitman
from Collect (1882)
"Origins of Attempted Secession"
Ulysses S. Grant
from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885-86)
Chapter XVI - Resignation - Private Life - Life at Galena - 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 - March 11, 1861
Walt Whitman
from Drum-Taps (1865)
"Drum-Taps"
Emily Dickinson
"A Day! Help! Help!" (1859)
"Success - is counted sweetest" (1859, 1862)
II. BATTLEFIELDS
Herman Melville
from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
"The March into Virginia"
"A Utilitarian Account of the Monitor'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 Soldier'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 Battle-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"
Walt Whitman
from Specimen Days (1882)
"A Night Battle, Over a Week Since"
"A Glimpse of War's Hell-Scenes"
"The Weather. - Does It Sympathize with These Times?"
"Two Brothers, One South, One North"
from Drum-Taps (1865)
"By the Bivouac'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)
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 -" (1860)
"The name - of it - is `Autumn' -" (1862)
"Whole Gulfs - of Red, and Fleets - of Red -" (1862)
"They dropped like Flakes -" (1863)
"If any sink, assure that this, now standing -" (1863)
"The Battle fought between the Soul" (1862)
"My Portion is Defeat - today -" (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 (1885-86)
Chapter 67: Negotiations at Appomattox - Interview with Lee at McLean's House - The Terms of Surrender - Lee's Surrender - Interview with Lee after the Surrender
William T. Sherman
from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Written by Himself (1875)
Chapter 24: Conclusion - Military Lessons of the War
III. AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
George Moses Horton
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)
"Cicely's Dream"
Paul Laurence Dunbar
"The Deserted Plantation"
"When Dey `Listed 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
"Dixie's Land" (1859, 1860)
Anonymous
"John Brown's Body" (1859?)
Septimus Winner
"Abraham's Daughter (Raw Recruits)" (1861)
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 Prisoner'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"
"A Loyal Woman's No"
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
"Giving Back the Flower" (1867)
Walt Whitman
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)
Walt Whitman
from Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865-66)
"When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd"
from Drum-Taps (1865)
"The Veteran's Vision"
from Specimen Days (1882)
"The Million Dead, Too, Summ'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"
"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 Tourgee
"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)
"War is Kind" (1896)
"The Battle Hymn"
Emily Dickinson
"My Triumph lasted till the Drums" (1871)
"`Tis Seasons since the Dimpled War" (1881)
Glossary
The Writers
Index