Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, credited to Herman Melville, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, the volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Fathers" (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
• Author credits: Herman Melville
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 58
• Listed recording duration: 3:18:10

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• civil war

Opening tracks: first 24 of 58

1. 00 - Dedication — 2:55
2. 01 - Misgivings — 1:29
3. 02 - The Conflict of Convictions — 5:38
4. 03 - Apathy and Enthusiasm — 2:24
5. 04 - The March into Virginia — 2:59
6. 05 - Lyon — 4:12
7. 06 - Ball's Bluff — 1:44
8. 07 - Dupont's Round Fight — 1:16
9. 08 - The Stone Fleet — 2:08
10. 09 - Donelson — 26:47
11. 10 - The Cumberland — 2:00
12. 11 - In the Turret — 2:24
13. 12 - The Temeraire — 2:48
14. 13 - A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight — 2:18
15. 14 - Shiloh — 1:18
16. 15 - The battle for the Mississippi — 3:19
17. 16 - Malvern Hill — 1:44
18. 17 - The Victor of Antietam — 4:27
19. 18 - Battle of Stone River — 3:00
20. 19 - Running the Batteries — 6:03
21. 20 - Stonewall Jackson — 1:34
22. 21 - Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian) — 4:00
23. 22 - Gettysburg — 2:00
24. 23 - The House-top — 1:49

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