Introduction: the rhetoric of voice in Civil War poetry
Shaping communities through popular song
"We are here at our country's call": nationalist commitments and personal stances in Union and Confederate soldiers' poems
The lyric I and the poetics of protest: Julia Ward Howe and Frances Harper
Addresses to a divided nation: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and the place of the lyric I
Romantic visions and Southern stances: Henry Timrod, Sarah Piatt, and George Moses Horton
"They answered him aloud": popular voice and nationalist allegiances in Herman Melville's battle-pieces
Epilogue: Civil War poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
To fight aloud is very brave : American poetry and the Civil War by Faith Barrett. ISBN 9781558499638. Published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.