{"id":"01KG8AJMPYQGG91H9RRNQCE1SM","cid":"bafkreifo25gmqihmcr2waedviyngacrneucpb3375253gx3twczoz5gb5i","type":"segment","properties":{"description":"# Battle of Stone River, Tennessee. A View from Oxford Cloisters.\n\n## Overview\nThis segment of text, titled \"Battle of Stone River, Tennessee. A View from Oxford Cloisters.\", is a poem dated January 1863. It is part of the larger [Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.](arke:01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9) poetry collection.\n\n## Context\nThe poem is extracted from the digital file [battle_pieces_and_aspects_of_the_war.txt](arke:01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8), which is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. It follows the poem \"[The Victor of Antietam.](arke:01KG8AJM22738NTDE8TVA26N9B)\" and precedes \"[Running the Batteries, As observed from the Anchorage above Vicksburgh.](arke:01KG8AJMPZJK5R1DEE26EDRDT8)\" within the collection.\n\n## Contents\nThe poem reflects on the Battle of Stone River, Tennessee, drawing parallels between the American Civil War and the historical Wars of the Roses in England. It contemplates the nature of conflict, the fading memory of battles, and the enduring divisions that fuel such strife. The poem mentions specific figures like Rosecrans and Breckenridge, and questions whether the North and South will ever truly reunite, contrasting their struggle with that of the Yorkists and Lancastrians.","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:24.660Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"Battle of Stone River, Tennessee. A View from Oxford Cloisters.","end_line":1502,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:35.910Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Battle of Stone River, Tennessee. A View from Oxford Cloisters.","source_file":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","start_line":1452,"text":"Battle of Stone River, Tennessee.\r\nA View from Oxford Cloisters.\r\n(January, 1863.)\r\n\r\n\r\nWith Tewksbury and Barnet heath\r\n  In days to come the field shall blend,\r\nThe story dim and date obscure;\r\n  In legend all shall end.\r\nEven now, involved in forest shade\r\n  A Druid-dream the strife appears,\r\nThe fray of yesterday assumes\r\n  The haziness of years.\r\n      In North and South still beats the vein\r\n      Of Yorkist and Lancastrian.\r\n\r\nOur rival Roses warred for Sway--\r\n  For Sway, but named the name of Right;\r\nAnd Passion, scorning pain and death,\r\n  Lent sacred fervor to the fight.\r\nEach lifted up a broidered cross,\r\n  While crossing blades profaned the sign;\r\nMonks blessed the fraticidal lance,\r\n  And sisters scarfs could twine.\r\n      Do North and South the sin retain\r\n      Of Yorkist and Lancastrian?\r\n\r\nBut Rosecrans in the cedarn glade,\r\n  And, deep in denser cypress gloom,\r\nDark Breckenridge, shall fade away\r\n      Or thinly loom.\r\nThe pale throngs who in forest cowed\r\n  Before the spell of battle’s pause,\r\nForefelt the stillness that shall dwell\r\n  On them and on their wars.\r\n      North and South shall join the train\r\n      Of Yorkist and Lancastrian.\r\n\r\nBut where the sword has plunged so deep,\r\n  And then been turned within the wound\r\nBy deadly Hate; where Climes contend\r\n      On vasty ground--\r\nNo warning Alps or seas between,\r\n  And small the curb of creed or law,\r\nAnd blood is quick, and quick the brain;\r\n  Shall North and South their rage deplore,\r\n      And reunited thrive amain\r\n      Like Yorkist and Lancastrian?\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Battle of Stone River, Tennessee. A View from Oxford Cloisters."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9","peer_type":"poetry_collection","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AJM22738NTDE8TVA26N9B","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AJMPZJK5R1DEE26EDRDT8","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:38.206Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:24.917Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}