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Inscription For Marye's Heights
Fredericksburg.
To them who crossed the flood
And climbed the hill, with eyes
Upon the heavenly flag intent,
And through the deathful tumult went
Even unto death: to them this Stone--
Erect, where they were overthrown--
Of more than victory the monument.
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- A Canticle
- A Dirge for McPherson
- A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia
- America
- An Epitaph
- Apathy And Enthusiasm
- At the Cannon's Mouth
- Aurora-Borealis
- Battle of Stone River, Tennessee
- Chattanooga
- Donelson
- Dupont's Round Fight
- Falstaff's Lament Over Prince Hal Become Henry V
- Gettysburg
- Gold in the Mountain
- Immolated
- In The Old Farm-house
- In the Pauper's Turnip-Field
- In the Turret
- Inscription for Graves
- Inscription For Marye's Heights
- Jack Roy
- Lee in the Capitol
- Look-out Mountain
- Lyon
- Magnanimity Baffled
- Malvern Hill
- Misgivings
- On a Natural Monument
- On Sherman's Men
- On the Men of Maine
- Presentation to the Authorities
- Running the Batteries
- Sheridan at Cedar Creek
- Shiloh
- Stonewall Jackson
- The Apparition
- The Armies of the Wilderness
- The Battle for the Bay
- The Battle for the Mississipppi
- The Berg (a Dream)
- The Chipmunk
- The Coming Storm
- The Conflict of Convictions
- The Cumberland
- The Eagle of the Blue
- The Enthusiast
- The Fall of Richmond
- The Fortitude of the North
- The Frenzy in the Wake
- The House-Top
- The Maldive Shark
- The March to the Sea
- The Mound by the Lake
- The Muster
- The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle
- The Scout Toward Aldie
- The Stone Fleet
- The Surrender at Appomattox
- The Temeraire
- The Victor of Antietam
- Verses
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