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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