Chapter X: The Final Struggle

PUT IT THROUGH, Edward Everett Hale 509
LOGAN AT PEACH TREE CREEK, Hamlin Garland 510
A DIRGE FOR MCPHERSON, Herman Melville 511
WITH CORSE AT ALLATOONA, Samuel H. M. Byers 511
ALLATOONA, Unknown 512
SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA, Samuel H. M. Byers 512
THE SONG OF SHERMAN'S ARMY, Charles Graham Halpine 513
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA, Henry Clay Work 513
ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLORS, Walt Whitman 514
SHERMAN'S IN SAVANNAH, Oliver Wendell Holmes 514
SAVANNAH, Alethea S. Burroughs 514
CAROLINA, Henry Timrod 515
CHARLESTON, Paul Hamilton Hayne 515
ROMANCE, William Ernest Henley 516
THE FOE AT THE GATES, John Dickson Bruns 516
ULRIC DAHLGREN, Kate Brownlee Sherwood 517
LEE TO THE REAR, John Randolph Thompson 518
CAN'T, Harriet Prescott Spofford 519
OBSEQUIES OF STUART, John Randolph Thompson 519
A CHRISTOPHER OF THE SHENANDOAH, Edith M. Thomas 520
SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK, Herman Melville 521
SHERIDAN'S RIDE, Thomas Buchanan Read 521
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, Henry Clay Work 522
VIRGINIA CAPTA, Margaret Junkin Preston 523
THE FALL OF RICHMOND, Herman Melville 523
THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX, Herman Melville 524
LEE'S PAROLE, Marion Manville 524
ROBERT E. LEE, Julia Ward Howe 524

CHAPTER XI

_Winslow and Farragut_

THE EAGLE AND VULTURE, Thomas Buchanan Read 525
KEARSARGE AND ALABAMA, Unknown 526
KEARSARGE, S. Weir Mitchell 526
THE ALABAMA, Maurice Bell 527
CRAVEN, Henry Newbolt 527
FARRAGUT, William Tuckey Meredith 528
THROUGH FIRE IN MOBILE BAY, Unknown 529
THE BAY FIGHT, Henry Howard Brownell 530
"ALBEMARLE" CUSHING, James Jeffrey Roche 535
AT THE CANNON'S MOUTH, Herman Melville 537

CHAPTER XII

_The Martyr President_

LINCOLN, S. Weir Mitchell 537
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! Walt Whitman 537
THE DEAD PRESIDENT, Edward Rowland Sill 538
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Edmund Clarence Stedman 538
PARDON, Julia Ward Howe 539
THE DEAR PRESIDENT, John James Piatt 539
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, William Cullen Bryant 540
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Richard Henry Stoddard 540
PARRICIDE, Julia Ward Howe 542
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Tom Taylor 543

CHAPTER XIII

_Peace_

"STACK ARMS," Joseph Blynth Alston 545
JEFFERSON DAVIS, Walker Meriwether Bell 545
IN THE LAND WHERE WE WERE DREAMING, Daniel B. Lucas 546
ACCEPTATION, Margaret Junkin Preston 547
THE CONQUERED BANNER, Abram J. Ryan 547
PEACE, Adeline D. T. Whitney 547
PEACE, Phoebe Cary 548
A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY, Bret Harte 548
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore 549
DRIVING HOME THE COWS, Kate Putnam Osgood 550
ODE RECITED AT THE HARVARD COMMEMORATION, James Russell
Lowell 550

PART V

THE PERIOD OF EXPANSION

THE EAGLE'S SONG, Richard Mansfield 558