Part 1. Writing the Civil War. Writing a battle: three versions of Chickamauga -- The Civil War in popular poetry: "God and right" -- Sir Walter Scott's legacy and the romance of the Civil War -- Herman Melville: "Battle no more shall be" -- John William De Forest: "The whole truth about war and battle" -- Walt Whitman: "That hell unpent" -- The Civil War rewritten in the postwar decades -- Part 2. The changing ways of fighting and writing war. The rapid modernization of weaponry and warfare -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Monitor, and the morality of war -- War as experienced and imagined by Mark Twain -- The war novels of Stephen Crane, Joseph Kirkland, and Frank Stockton -- American writers at war: Cuba and the Philippines -- The pacifist ideology of William James and George Kirkpatrick.
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