Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Project Gutenberg's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, by Herman Melville This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Author: Herman Melville Release Date: May 19, 2004 [EBook #12384] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ASPECTS OF WAR *** Produced by David Maddock BATTLE-PIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR. BY HERMAN MELVILLE. NEW YORK: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square 1866. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, by Harper & Brothers, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. The Battle-Pieces in this volume are dedicated to the memory of the THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND who in the war for the maintenance of the Union fell devotedly under the flag of their fathers. [With few exceptions, the Pieces in this volume originated in an impulse imparted by the fall of Richmond. They were composed without reference to collective arrangement, but being brought together in review, naturally fall into the order assumed.