Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Herman Melville are just a few of the contributors to the 66 poems and 38 songs, arranged by subject, that evoke the harrowing experience that was the Civil War.

Includes index of first lines.

Introduction -- Separation -- Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Eighteen Sixty-One / Walt Whitman -- Charleston / Henry Timrod -- To the South / James Maurice Thompson -- Soldiers -- Bivouac on a Mountainside / Walt Whitman -- An Army Corps on the March / Walt Whitman -- The Bivouac in the Snow / Margaret Junkin Preston -- Running the Batteries / Herman Melville -- Cavalry Crossing a Ford / Nathaniel Graham Shepherd -- Deeds of Valor -- Kearny at Seven Pines / Edmund Clarence Stedman -- Keenan's Charge / George Parsons Lathrop -- Little Giffen / Francis Orray Ticknor -- The Daughter of the Regiment / Clinton Scollard -- Sheridan's Ride / Thomas Buchanan Read -- The General's Death / Joseph O'Connor -- The Volunteer / Elbridge Jefferson Cutler -- Enemies and Friends -- The Aged Stranger / Francis Bret Harte -- United / Benjamin Sledd -- Music in the Camp / John Reuben Thompson -- The Pride of Battery B / Frank H. Gassaway -- Civil War / Charles Dawson Shanly -- Family -- The Picket-guard / Ethel Lynn Beers -- A Message / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -- Christmas Night of '62 / William Gordon McCabe -- Dreaming in the Trenches / William Gordon McCabe -- Come Up From the Fields, Father / Walt Whitman -- In Memoriam -- Shiloh, A Requiem / Herman Melville -- Pelham / James Ryder Randall -- Ashby / John Reuben Thompson -- Stonewall Jackson's Way / John Williamson Palmer -- the Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson / Sidney Lanier -- Albert Sidney Johnston / Kate Brownlee Sherwood -- Thomas at Chickamauga / Kate Brownlee Sherwood -- Farragut / William Tuckey Meredith -- Sherman / Richard Watson Gilder -- On a Great Warrior / Henry Abbey -- Robert E. Lee / Julia Ward Howe -- An Ode in Time of Hesitation / William Vaughn Moody.