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Melville poem recalls an elusive target.(Herman Melville, The Scout Toward Aldie)(Critical Essay)

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From: Melville Society Extracts
Date: 20050201
Author:Scheel, Eugene

[A version of this essay, giving the geographical and historical details of Melville's source material for "The Scout Toward Aldie," appeared in the Washington Post on April 18, 2004. Eugene Scheel writes of a visit to Middleburg, VA where he meets Jonathan A. Cook, author of "History, Legend, and Poetic Tradition in Melville's 'Scout Toward Aldie'" (ATQ June 2003). Their conversation turning to "the elusive Confederate partisan raider, John Singleton Mosby," Scheel traces Melville's journey through the local landscape.]

Curious as to why Cook chose to write about "The Scout ...

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