Published to coincide with the start of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, this new collection of important short works has been compiled by an expert on Civil War literature. Contributors include many of the most famous authors of the era: Whitman, Melville, Longfellow, Bierce, Alcott, Twain, and Whittier.

Note__ Before the War - How Old Brown Took Harper’s Ferry (poem)Edmund Clarence Stedman - Glory Hallelujah! or John Brown’s Body (poem)Anonymous -Ye Men of Alabama! (poem)John D. Phelan - Arise (poem)C. G. Poynas -- 1861_ A Poem for the Times (poem)John R. Thompson - A Word for the Hour (poem)John Greenleaf Whittier - Jefferson D. (poem)H. S. Cornwell - Rebels (poem)Anonymous - The Bonnie Blue Flag (poem)Harry Macarthy - Reply to the Bonnie Blue Flag (poem)Isaac M. Ball - Secession (poem)Anonymous - Dirge: For One Who Fell in Battle (poem)Thomas William Parsons - The Battle-Cry of Freedom (poem)George Frederick Root - Dixie All Right (poem)Anonymous - Bull Run: A Parody (poem)Anonymous - The March into Virginia: Ending in the First Manassas (poem)Herman Melville - The War Fever in Baldinsville; The Draft in Baldinsville (stories)Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) - Melt the Bells (poem)F. Y. Rockett -- “What the Village Bell Said” (poem)John G. M’Lemore_ The Little Drummer: A Soldier’s Story (story)Richard H. Stoddard -- All Quiet Along the Potomac (poem)Ethel Lynn Beers -- Thinking of the Soldiers (poem)Anonymous -- Only One Killed (poem)Julia L. Keyes -- 1862 -- Battle-Hymn of the Republic (poem)Julia Ward Howe -- Song of the Irish Legion (poem)James De Mille -- Come List, My Boys, Enlist (poem)Anonymous -- Army-Hymn: “Old Hundred” (poem)Oliver Wendell Holmes -- On Board the Cumberland (poem)George H. Boker -- The Turtle (poem)Anonymous -- Stonewall Jackson’s Way (poem)Anonymous -- Shiloh: A Requiem (poem)Herman Melville -- Epigram: “Whilst Butler plays his silly pranks” (poem)--Anonymous -- The Drummer-Boy of Tennessee (poem)Minnie Hart -- The Hero of the Drum (poem)George W. Bungay -- “The Yankee hosts with blood-stained hands” (poem)Anonymous -- L-E-G on My Leg (poem)Anonymous -- Hopeful Tackett—His Mark (story)Richmond Wolcott -- Three Hundred Thousand More (poem)James Sloan Gibbons -- A Bundle of Socks (poem)S. E. B. --Dirge for a Soldier: In Memory of General Philip Kearny (poem)George Henry Boker -- “Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott” (Luther’s Hymn) (poem)John Greenleaf Whittier -- The Empty Sleeve (poem)J. R. Bagby -- Joe Parsons, a Maryland Brave (story)Anonymous -- The Sergeant’s Little Story (story)William H. Kemper _ Fredericksburgh (poem)W. F. W._A Day (story)Louisa May Alcott -- Oremus (poem)George H. Boker --_ 1863_ Mosby at Hamilton (poem)Madison Cawein -- Stonewall Jackson (poem)Herman Melville -- “Let Us Cross Over the River”: Jackson’s Last Words (poem)Anonymous -- The Scout’s Narration (story)Anonymous -- The Northern Invasion of Lee (poem)Anonymous -- The Battle of Gettysburg (poem)Howard Glyndon -- How Are You, General Lee? (poem)Anonymous -- A Midnight Scene at Vicksburg (poem)Horace B. Durant -- Opening of the Mississippi (poem)R. H. Chittenden -- The Swamp Angel (poem)T. N. J. -- “I am monarch of all I survey” (poem)Anonymous -- The Guerillas (poem)S. Teackle Wallis -- Barbara Frietchie (poem)John Greenleaf Whittier -- A Negro-Volunteer Song (poem)Anonymous -- Charge of the Mule Brigade (poem)Anonymous -- My Dream: To Thomas Carlyle (poem)William C. Bennett -- Music in Camp (poem)John R. Thompson -- The War-Christian’s Thanksgiving (poem)George H. Miles -- The Color Sergeant (poem)A. D. F. Randolph-- A Mother’s Story (poem)Anonymous -- Driving Home the Cows (poem)Kate Putnam Osgood -- Killed at the Ford (poem)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 (poems)Walt Whitman -- The Unknown Dead (poem)Henry Timrod -- A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim (poem)Walt Whitman -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (story)Ambrose Bierce -- The Wound-Dresser (poem)Walt Whitman -- “I Fights Mit Sigel!” (poem)Grant P. Robinson -- Buried Alive (story)Anonymous -- A Southern Scene (poem)Anonymous -- The Contraband’s Return (poem) Hermine -- The Daring Spy (story)Anonymous -- The Case of George Dedlow (story)Silas Weir Mitchell -- Epitaph on John B. Floyd (poem)Anonymous -- The Silent March (poem)Anonymous -- 1865 -- A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It (story)Mark Twain -- The Dog of the Regiment (poem)Anonymous -- A Soldier’s Letter (poem)Mary C. Hovey _ Carolina (poem)Henry Timrod -- O Captain! My Captain! (poem)Walt Whitman -- The Conquered Banner (poem)Abram Joseph Ryan -- Why Can Not We Be Brothers? (poem)Clarence Prentice -- Post-War -- True to the Gray (poem)Pearl Rivers -- The Confederate Note (poem)S. A. Jonas -- Rebel Color-Bearers at Shiloh (poem)Herman Melville -- The Blue and the Gray (poem)Francis Miles Finch -- The Artilleryman’s Vision (poem)Walt Whitman -- Sources