Selections from Battle

The "Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" Android Librivox Audio Book App!

Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville.
A handful of trips Melville took before, during, and after the war provide additional angles of vision into the battles, the personalities, and the moods of war. The aspects to which he refers in the title are as diverse as the moods of involuntary meditation moods variable, and at times widely at variance. Much of the verse is stylistically conventional, but the shifting subjectivities and unresolved traumas that unfold in the collection merit repeated contemplation. Melville Battle-Pieces do not offer a neatly versified narrative of the Civil War but rather kaleidescopic glimpses of shifting emotions and ambivalent reflections of post-war America.

Total running time: 02:24:22 Read by Clark University

Chapters:

• 01 - The Portent (1859)
  
• 02 - Misgivings
  
• 03 - The Conflict of Convictions
  
• 04 - Apathy and Enthusiasm
  
• 05 - The March into Virginia
  
• 06 - Lyon
  
• 07 - Ball's Bluff
  
• 08 - Dupont's Round Fight
  
• 09 - The Stone Fleet
  
• 10 - Donelson
  
• 11 - The Cumberland
  
• 12 - In the Turret
  
• 13 - The Temeraire
  
• 14 - The Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight
  
• 15 - Shiloh
  
• 16 - The Battle for the Mississippi
  
• 17 - Malvern Hill
  
• 18 - The Victor of Antietam
  
• 19 - Battle of Stone River
  
• 20 - Running the Batteries
  
• 21 - Stonewall Jackson
  
• 22 - Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian)
  
• 23 - Gettysburg
  
• 24 - The House-top
  
• 25 - Look-out Mountain
  
• 26 - Chattanooga
  
• 27 - The Armies of the Wilderness
  
• 28 - On the Photograph of a Corps Commander
  
• 29 - The Swamp Angel
  
• 30 - The Battle for the Bay
  
• 31 - Sheridan at Cedar Creek
  
• 32 - In the Prison Pen
  
• 33 - The College Colonel
  
• 34 - The Eagle of the Blue
  
• 35 - A Dirge for McPherson
  
• 36 - At the Cannon's Mouth
  
• 37 - The March to the Sea
  
• 38 - The Frenzy in the Wake
  
• 39 - The Fall of Richmond
  
• 40 - The Surrender at Appomattox
  
• 41 - A Canticle
  
• 42 - The Martyr
  
• 43 - 'The Coming Storm'
  
• 44 - Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh
  
• 45 - The Muster
  
• 46 - Aurora Borealis
  
• 47 - The released Rebel Prisoner
  
• 48 - A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia
  
• 49 - 'Formerly a Slave'
  
• 50 - The Apparition
  
• 51 - Magnanimity Baffled
  
• 52 - On the Slain Collegians
  
• 53 - America
  
• 54 - An Epitaph
  
• 55 - The Mound by the Lake
  
• 56 - Commemorative of a Naval Victory
  

The Android App "Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Audio Book" is a full featured media player with:

• Selectable Table of Contents to allow to jump to the start of any of the chapters.
  
• Adjustable Progress Bar to allow to jump to any spot in the current playing chapter
  
• Previous Chapter Button
  
• Rewind Button
  
• Play / Pause Button
  
• Fast Forward Button
  
• Next Chapter Button
  

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