Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War


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This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, when the wounds to North and South were still fresh, and when no event more cataclysmic had struck the Republic than a Civil War that began less than 100 years after the Revolution for Independence. Poets in this volume include: John Greenleaf Whittier, William Cullen Bryant, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walt Whitman, and Julia Ward Howe. - Summary by Ed Humpal (10 hr 59 min)

Chapters

The Battle Hymn of the Republic 2:29 Read by Niki Myers
The Slavery Question 1:11:51 Read by Ed Humpal
The Gauntlet 42:28 Read by realisticspeakers
The North Gets Its Lesson 1:06:11 Read by KHand
The Grand Army of the Potomac 1:09:50 Read by Niki Myers
The War in the West 33:05 Read by T.K. Andersen
The Coast and the River 55:25 Read by Kalynda
Emancipation 18:07 Read by Larry Wilson
The Grand Army's Second Campaign 56:57 Read by Chris Pyle
With Grant on the Mississippi 45:28 Read by KHand
The Final Struggle 1:08:16 Read by realisticspeakers
Winslow and Farragut 43:23 Read by KHand
The Martyr President 33:43 Read by Greg Giordano
Peace 51:48 Read by MaryAnn