CHAPTER XXXVII. The mystical master introduces the practical disciple. CHAPTER XXXVIII. The disciple unbends, and consents to act a social part. CHAPTER XXXIX. The hypothetical friends. CHAPTER XL. In which the story of China Aster is, at second-hand, told by one who, while not disapproving the moral, disclaims the spirit of the style. CHAPTER XLI. Ending with a rupture of the hypothesis. CHAPTER XLII. Upon the heel of the last scene, the Cosmopolitan enters the barber's shop, a benediction on his lips. CHAPTER XLIII. Very charming. CHAPTER XLIV. In which the last three words of the last chapter are made the text of the discourse, which will be sure of receiving more or less attention from those readers who do not skip it. CHAPTER XLV. The Cosmopolitan increases in seriousness. BATTLE-PIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR. By Herman Melville. 1866 CONTENTS Misgivings The Conflict of Convictions Apathy and Enthusiasm The March into Virginia Lyon Ball's Bluff Dupont's Round Fight The Stone Fleet Donelson The Cumberland In the Turret The Temeraire A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight Shiloh The Battle for the Mississipppi Malvern Hill The Victor of Antietam Battle of Stone River Running the Batteries Stonewall Jackson Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian) Gettysburg The House-top Look-out Mountain Chattanooga The Armies of the Wilderness On the Photograph of a Corps Commander The Swamp Angel The Battle for the Bay Sheridan at Cedar Creek In the Prison Pen The College Colonel The Eagle of the Blue A Dirge for McPherson At the Cannon's Mouth The March to the Sea The Frenzy in the Wake The Fall of Richmond The Surrender at Appomattox A Canticle The Martyr "The Coming Storm" Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh The Muster Aurora-Borealis The Released Rebel Prisoner A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia "Formerly a Slave." The Apparition Magnanimity Baffled On the Slain Collegians America Verses Inscriptive and Memorial On the Home Guards who perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri Inscription for Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas The Fortitude of the North Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas On the Men of Maine killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana An Epitaph Inscription for Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg The Mound by the Lake On the Slain at Chickamauga An uninscribed Monument on one of the Battle-fields of the Wilderness On Sherman's Men Who fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia On the Grave of a young Cavalry Officer killed in the Valley of Virginia A Requiem for Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports On a natural Monument in a field of Georgia Commemorative of a Naval Victory Presentation to the Authorities, by Privates, of Colors captured in Battles ending in the Surrender of Lee The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle Lee in the Capitol A Meditation JOHN MARR AND OTHER POEMS By Herman Melville With An Introductory Note By HENRY CHAPIN MCMXXII