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McPherson (search for this): chapter 2.15
ng against Great God. In the fourth year of the war the note of triumph passed from the Southern to the Northern poets. S. H. M. Byers's Sherman's March to the sea and Halpine's The song of Sherman's Army are almost gay, and Henry Clay Work's Marching through Georgia if not gay is nothing else. Holmes's Sherman's in Savannah rhymed the name of the fallen city with banner. Strangely haunting is Whitman's Ethiopia Saluting the Colors. Also haunting, but sad, is Melville's A Dirge for McPherson—— True fame is his, for life is o'er Sarpedon of the mighty war—— while his Sheridan at Cedar Creek, The fall of Richmond, and The surrender at Appomattox, though never widely known, are full of that distinction which Melville, with all his irregularities, was never long without, in prose or verse. Thomas Buchanan Read's famous Sheridan's Ride is a better ballad than Melville's piece on the same theme, but purely as poetry it is inferior. Henry Clay Work's The year of Jubilee, sup
Oliver Wendell Holmes (search for this): chapter 2.15
the conflict. At least one of them has not received his due share of praise-Henry Howard Brownell (1820-1872), called by Holmes Our Battle Laureate. Born at Providence, he went with his family to Hartford, where he graduated from Trinity College incession of South Carolina called forth the earnest, affectionate Brother Jonathan's lament for sister Caroline by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Stedman and Brownell were but two of the many stirred to verse by the attack on Sumter. The spirit of the vol-old lieutenant killed in the attack on Fort Henry, and the year after published his masterpiece, The old Sergeant, which Holmes thought the finest thing since the war began,— the death-scene of a nameless soldier wounded at Shiloh. Richer in melody's The song of Sherman's Army are almost gay, and Henry Clay Work's Marching through Georgia if not gay is nothing else. Holmes's Sherman's in Savannah rhymed the name of the fallen city with banner. Strangely haunting is Whitman's Ethiopia Salutin
Richard Realf (search for this): chapter 2.15
e and was heard in every camp many times every day. Other popular songs were the Song of the soldiers by Halpine and I'd rather be a soldier, A tramping, camping soldier by John Savage. All these are primarily concerned with the military side of the conflict. Civil matters, too, found poetic voices: Bret Harte's The Copperhead and The Copperhead Convention, and Thomas Clarke's Sir Copp, stinging denunciations; F. W. Lander's Rhode Island to the South, full of prophetic challenge; Richard Realf's Io Triumphe, hopeful and resolute; W. A. Devon's Give Me Your hand, Johnny bull, a friendly, earnest bid for British sympathy. Still more interesting are the numerous pieces that reveal the feelings of sorrowing men and women at home, and of soldiers sick for home. Specially memorable are Lucy Larcom's Waiting for news, Kate Putnam Osgood's extraordinarily pathetic Driving home the Cows, C. D. Shanly's The Brier Wood Pipe, Augusta Cooper Bristol's Term of service ended, Read's The br
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ses so pleased the Commodore that he wrote to Brownell in terms of hearty appreciation and afterwards made the poet his secretary. Brownell thus had an opportunity, in actual service, to become acqug as that pronounced by Lowell and Aldrich in Brownell's own generation. His power lay in combiningreported real warfare so accurately. Some of Brownell's lines read like rhymed journalism, but he hl vigour and veracity. Less important than Brownell as a war poet was George Henry Boker, See Stedman in How old Brown took Harper's Ferry, Brownell in The battle of Charlestown, fiercely ironicroline by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Stedman and Brownell were but two of the many stirred to verse byier wounded at Shiloh. Richer in melody than Brownell, Willson was like him in directness and realied Shaw in a pit under a heap of his men, and Brownell thought of them as dragon's teeth buried in taring Dave Farragut, Thunderbolt stroke—— and Brownell, whose The Bay fight, though perhaps too long[5 more...]<
Walt Whitman (search for this): chapter 2.15
lt pulses throbbing beneath the rude exterior of American life. Of such were Lowell, Whittier, Whitman, and various more ephemeral writers who felt the stirring times. To them it was not satisfying with which he encouraged the fighters for freedom and exulted over the victory of their aims. Whitman, See also Book III, Chap. I. already the prophet, though as yet hardly heard, of a mystical's Sherman's in Savannah rhymed the name of the fallen city with banner. Strangely haunting is Whitman's Ethiopia Saluting the Colors. Also haunting, but sad, is Melville's A Dirge for McPherson—— ed forth, associated, for the most part, with the name of Lincoln. Stoddard's Abraham Lincoln, Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (not to be mentioned with the popular but less valuable O Captain! My Captain!), and Lowell's Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration. Whitman had written not a few vivid descriptions of war scenes, and he stands alone among all the poets of his t
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ap. XI. was the subject of Thomas William Parsons's lofty Dirge for one who fell in battle. Bull Run, theme of many exultant Southern ballads and satires, See also Book III, Chap. III. brought from Boker the impassioned Upon the Hill before Centreville. In the controversy with England which followed the seizure of Mason and Slidell, Lowell wrote his spirited and determined Jonathan to John, second in the new series of Biglow papers. During September, 1861, Mrs. Ethelinda, (Ethel Lynn) Beers wrote The Picket-Guard (attributed in the South to Lamar Fontaine or Thaddeus Oliver), a widely popular piece expressing sympathy with the minor and unnoted victims of the conflict. Also popular was the anonymous Tardy George, that is, General McClellan, of whom the North demanded more activity than he ever attained. In the same cause, though without the mention of names, was Wanted—A Man, by Stedman, who shortly after had to write another elegy, Kearny at seven pines, upon the gallant off
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ath Sailed the Great Admiral. On our high poop-deck he stood, And round him ranged the men Who have made their birthright good Of manhood, once and agen— Lords of helm and of sail, Tried in tempest and gale, Bronzed in battle and wreck— Bell and Bailey grandly led Each his Line of the Blue and Red— Wainwright stood by our starboard rail: Thornton fought the deck. And I mind me of more than they, Of the youthful, steadfast ones, That have shown them worthy sons Of the Seamen passed away— （Tyson conned our helm, that day, Watson stood by his guns.) Lord of mercy and frown, Ruling o'er sea and shore, Send us such scene once more! All in Line of Battle Where the black ships bear down On tyrant fort and town, 'Mid cannon cloud and rattle— And the great guns once more Thunder back the roar Of the traitor wall ashore, And the traitor flags come down! It was in New England that Emancipation was most eagerly acclaimed. Emerson's Boston hymn, written in honour of Lincoln's Procla
Lamar Fontaine (search for this): chapter 2.15
rge for one who fell in battle. Bull Run, theme of many exultant Southern ballads and satires, See also Book III, Chap. III. brought from Boker the impassioned Upon the Hill before Centreville. In the controversy with England which followed the seizure of Mason and Slidell, Lowell wrote his spirited and determined Jonathan to John, second in the new series of Biglow papers. During September, 1861, Mrs. Ethelinda, (Ethel Lynn) Beers wrote The Picket-Guard (attributed in the South to Lamar Fontaine or Thaddeus Oliver), a widely popular piece expressing sympathy with the minor and unnoted victims of the conflict. Also popular was the anonymous Tardy George, that is, General McClellan, of whom the North demanded more activity than he ever attained. In the same cause, though without the mention of names, was Wanted—A Man, by Stedman, who shortly after had to write another elegy, Kearny at seven pines, upon the gallant officer commemorated by Boker in the Dirge for a soldier. Thoma
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f an opposition to slavery that made that section very obnoxious to the South. Boker in the spring of 1863 greeted the news of the Federal advance with his Hooker's across; and Chancellorsville, which called forth so many Confederate poems See also Book III, Chap. III. on the death of Stonewall Jackson, led George Parsons Lathrop to write his dashing ballad, Keenan's charge. Perhaps it was again because poets sing best in defeat that no Union poem on Gettysburg quite equals Will Henry Thompson's later High tide (1888). Stedman, however, made a ringing ballad, Gettysburg, and Bret Harte preserved a real episode of the day in his John Burns of Gettysburg. Best of all, of course, was Lincoln's famous address at the battle-field on 19 November, 1863, which lacks nothing of poetry but its outer forms. As Grant rose to fame the poets kept pace with his deeds: Melville with Running the Batteries and Boker with Before Vicksburg dealt with the struggle to open the Mississippi. Loo
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eagues of bayous and lakes,) To die in the great Gulf Stream? Would you hear of the River-Fight? It was two, of a soft spring night— God's stars looked down on all, And all was clear and bright But the low fog's clinging breath— Up the River of Death Sailed the Great Admiral. On our high poop-deck he stood, And round him ranged the men Who have made their birthright good Of manhood, once and agen— Lords of helm and of sail, Tried in tempest and gale, Bronzed in battle and wreck— Bell and Bailey grandly led Each his Line of the Blue and Red— Wainwright stood by our starboard rail: Thornton fought the deck. And I mind me of more than they, Of the youthful, steadfast ones, That have shown them worthy sons Of the Seamen passed away— （Tyson conned our helm, that day, Watson stood by his guns.) Lord of mercy and frown, Ruling o'er sea and shore, Send us such scene once more! All in Line of Battle Where the black ships bear down On tyrant fort and town, 'Mid cannon cloud and rat
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