...and to Bret Harte's (sometimes called ), which is said to have played a large part in holding California loyal. The advance of Lee to Antietam, his repulse there, and his retreat found a record in Whittier 's , Melville's , Boker's , John Boyle O'Reilly's , and Aldrich's exquisite sonnets and . Meanwhile the war in the West was not without its poet— annalists, of whom the most notable perhaps...