Introduction. "This mighty convulsion": Whitman and Melville write the Civil War / Christopher Sten and Tyler Hoffman
The interplay of drum-taps and battle-pieces. "The foulest crime": Whitman, Melville, and the cultural life of a phrase / Ed Folsom
Materiality in the Civil War poetry of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman / Vanessa Steinroetter
Battle-pieces, drum-taps, and the aesthetic of aftermath in Civil War photography / Sarah L. Thwaites
Reconciliation as sequel and supplement: drum-taps and battle-pieces / Peter J. Bellis
Re-imagining drum taps. Whitman's disarming poetics: recuperating the language of the body in drum-taps / Kyle Barton
Embodying the book: mourning for the masses in Walt Whitman's drum-taps / Adam Bradford
Drum-taps and the chaos of war / Cody Marrs
Re-imagining battle-pieces. Melville and the lord of hosts: holy war and divine warrior rhetoric in battle-pieces / Jonathan A. Cook
"Nearer to us in nature": the US South and Herman Melville's literary lost cause / Timothy Marr
Melville's historical imagination in "the house-top" / Christopher Ohge
Melville's reconstructions: the "moorish maid" in "Lee in the Capitol" / Brian Yothers
Drum-taps and battle-pieces brought together / Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and the American Civil War poetry anthology / Ian Faith
List of American Civil War poetry anthologies.