... knowledge, unimportant when compared with Lowell's . Still a third Pennsylvanian, Thomas Buchanan Read, wrote, in , one of the most rousing of all the martial ballads called forth by the war. Herman Melville , who said in the preface to his Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) I seem, in most of these verses, to have but placed a harp in a window, and noted the contrasted airs which wayward winds ...