{"id":"01KG8AJKCQXPFPDA279EN2YZQE","cid":"bafkreifrc32tcdwy2hkgv75lxlh7ncksqvu765hdyaa7kr25msnbml657y","type":"segment","properties":{"description":"# FURTHER.\n## Overview\nThis is a segment from a poem titled \"FURTHER.\", extracted from [Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.](arke:01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9). It is part of a larger collection called [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW). The segment describes a battle and its aftermath, including the perspectives of soldiers and civilians. It was extracted on January 30, 2026.\n\n## Context\nThe segment is part of [Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.](arke:01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9), a poetry collection by Herman Melville. The source file for this segment is [battle_pieces_and_aspects_of_the_war.txt](arke:01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8). This segment is preceded by [LATER FROM THE FORT.](arke:01KG8AJKCSSBJ0JZFF9XYBQFAQ) and followed by [FRIDAY’S GREAT EVENT!](arke:01KG8AJKCSFPGGGE7T8FNE7E1S).\n\n## Contents\nThe segment describes a battle, likely the Battle of Fort Donelson, and its immediate aftermath. It depicts a fierce charge by Confederate forces (\"a yelling rout/Of ragamuffins\") against Union lines, led by officers \"Splendid in courage and gold lace.\" The Union troops initially fall back but rally and break the Confederate sally, though with losses. The segment also describes a failed Union assault on a Confederate redoubt, highlighting the obstacles and heavy casualties.\n\nFollowing the battle, the segment portrays the harsh conditions faced by the Union soldiers: lack of blankets, coats, tents, and fires, as well as cold rations. A midnight sally is anticipated. The poem then shifts to a scene with civilians, including a \"cross patriot,\" a group of cheering boys, and a Copperhead expressing skepticism about the Union's chances. The segment concludes with the posting of a brief sheet announcing a \"GLORIOUS VICTORY OF THE FLEET!\"\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:24.980Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"FURTHER.","end_line":687,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:35.910Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"FURTHER.","source_file":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","start_line":593,"text":"FURTHER.\r\n         A yelling rout\r\nOf ragamuffins broke profuse\r\n  To-day from out the Fort.\r\n  Sole uniform they wore, a sort\r\nOf patch, or white badge (as you choose)\r\n  Upon the arm. But leading these,\r\nOr mingling, were men of face\r\nAnd bearing of patrician race,\r\nSplendid in courage and gold lace--\r\n  The officers. Before the breeze\r\nMade by their charge, down went our line;\r\nBut, rallying, charged back in force,\r\nAnd broke the sally; yet with loss.\r\nThis on the left; upon the right\r\nMeanwhile there was an answering fight;\r\n  Assailants and assailed reversed.\r\nThe charge too upward, and not down--\r\nUp a steep ridge-side, toward its crown,\r\n  A strong redoubt. But they who first\r\nGained the fort’s base, and marked the trees\r\nFelled, heaped in horned perplexities,\r\n  And shagged with brush; and swarming there\r\nFierce wasps whose sting was present death--\r\nThey faltered, drawing bated breath,\r\n  And felt it was in vain to dare;\r\nYet still, perforce, returned the ball,\r\nFiring into the tangled wall\r\nTill ordered to come down. They came;\r\nBut left some comrades in their fame,\r\nRed on the ridge in icy wreath\r\nAnd hanging gardens of cold Death.\r\n  But not quite unavenged these fell;\r\nOur ranks once out of range, a blast\r\n  Of shrapnel and quick shell\r\nBurst on the rebel horde, still massed,\r\n  Scattering them pell-mell.\r\n    (This fighting--judging what we read--\r\n    Both charge and countercharge,\r\n    Would seem but Thursday’s told at large,\r\n    Before in brief reported.--Ed.)\r\nNight closed in about the Den\r\n  Murky and lowering. Ere long, chill rains.\r\nA night not soon to be forgot,\r\n  Reviving old rheumatic pains\r\nAnd longings for a cot.\r\n\r\n  No blankets, overcoats, or tents.\r\nCoats thrown aside on the warm march here--\r\nWe looked not then for changeful cheer;\r\nTents, coats, and blankets too much care.\r\n  No fires; a fire a mark presents;\r\n  Near by, the trees show bullet-dents.\r\nRations were eaten cold and raw.\r\n  The men well soaked, come snow; and more--\r\nA midnight sally. Small sleeping done--\r\n    But such is war;\r\nNo matter, we’ll have Fort Donelson._\r\n\r\n          “Ugh! ugh!\r\n’Twill drag along--drag along”\r\nGrowled a cross patriot in the throng,\r\nHis battered umbrella like an ambulance-cover\r\nRiddled with bullet-holes, spattered all over.\r\n“Hurrah for Grant!” cried a stripling shrill;\r\nThree urchins joined him with a will,\r\nAnd some of taller stature cheered.\r\nMeantime a Copperhead passed; he sneered.\r\n  “Win or lose,” he pausing said,\r\n“Caps fly the same; all boys, mere boys;\r\nAny thing to make a noise.\r\n  Like to see the list of the dead;\r\nThese ‘_craven Southerners_’ hold out;\r\nAy, ay, they’ll give you many a bout”\r\n  “We’ll beat in the end, sir”\r\nFirmly said one in staid rebuke,\r\nA solid merchant, square and stout.\r\n  “And do you think it? that way tend, sir”\r\nAsked the lean Cooperhead, with a look\r\nOf splenetic pity. “Yes, I do”\r\nHis yellow death’s head the croaker shook:\r\n“The country’s ruined, that I know”\r\nA shower of broken ice and snow,\r\n  In lieu of words, confuted him;\r\nThey saw him hustled round the corner go,\r\n  And each by-stander said--Well suited him.\r\n\r\nNext day another crowd was seen\r\nIn the dark weather’s sleety spleen.\r\nBald-headed to the storm came out\r\nA man, who, ’mid a joyous shout,\r\nSilently posted this brief sheet:\r\n\r\nGLORIOUS VICTORY OF THE FLEET!\r\n\r","title":"FURTHER."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9","peer_type":"poetry_collection","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AJKCSSBJ0JZFF9XYBQFAQ","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AJKCSFPGGGE7T8FNE7E1S","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:36.855Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:25.234Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}