This event is the subject of a 43-poem cycle which opens by describing how "the white tents cluster in (*) camps," and includes a poem in which the narrator describes "A procession winding around me, solemn sweet and slow," titled "By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame.
One book about this event includes a poem subtitled "A Requiem," which tells of how "skimming lightly, wheeling still, the swallows fly low." Another poem about this event describes a "flag whose stars, like planets strike us through," and is titled "The Frenzy in the Wake." This event is the subject of a 43-poem cycle which opens by describing how "the white tents cluster in (*) camps," and includes a poem in which the narrator describes "A procession winding around me, solemn sweet and slow," titled "By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame." Literature about this event was the subject of Edmund Wilson's Patriotic Gore. The subject of Herman Melville's Battle Pieces, for 10 points, identify this event, the subject of a section of Leaves of Grass titled Drum Taps.
One book about this event includes a poem subtitled "A Requiem," which tells of how "skimming lightly, wheeling still, the swallows fly low."
the American Civil War