Chapter VI: The Coast and the River

AT PORT ROYAL, John Greenleaf Whittier 461
READY, Phoebe Cary 461
THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT, Clinton Scollard 462
THE TURTLE, Unknown 462
THE ATTACK, Thomas Buchanan Read 463
THE CUMBERLAND, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 464
ON BOARD THE CUMBERLAND, George Henry Boker 464
THE CUMBERLAND, Herman Melville 466
HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN, S. Weir Mitchell 466
THE CRUISE OF THE MONITOR, George Henry Boker 467
THE SINKING OF THE MERRIMACK, Lucy Larcom 468
THE RIVER FIGHT, Henry Howard Brownell 468
THE BALLAD OF NEW ORLEANS, George Henry Boker 472
THE VARUNA, George Henry Boker 474
THE SURRENDER OF NEW ORLEANS, Marion Manville 475
MUMFORD, Ina M. Porter 476
BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION, Paul Hamilton Hayne 476

CHAPTER VII

_Emancipation_

TO JOHN C. FRÉMONT, John Greenleaf Whittier 477
ASTRÆA AT THE CAPITOL, John Greenleaf Whittier 478
BOSTON HYMN, Ralph Waldo Emerson 478
THE PROCLAMATION, John Greenleaf Whittier 480
TREASON'S LAST DEVICE, Edmund Clarence Stedman 480
LAUS DEO, John Greenleaf Whittier 481