{"id":"01KG8AJPZH1S0BAWHFJJFJSK5Z","cid":"bafkreih2ne6oxdjuemcc2wzqx6m5aec57g7pyxz26kifzp4wvw2evbgseq","type":"segment","properties":{"description":"# The Surrender at Appomattox.\n\n## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)\n\"The Surrender at Appomattox.\" is a segment of text, likely a poem, extracted from the file [battle_pieces_and_aspects_of_the_war.txt](arke:01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8). The segment, spanning lines 3040-3116, is part of the larger poetry collection [Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.](arke:01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9) and is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. The text was extracted on January 30, 2026, by the structure-extraction-lambda.\n\n## Context - Background and provenance from related entities\nThis segment is a poem within a collection of poems focused on the American Civil War. The poem follows \"The Fall of Richmond.\" (arke:01KG8AJPZHPVK3XF34J169DF31) and precedes \"The Martyr.\" (arke:01KG8AJPZHF488ZNMXR1W3RSBJ), indicating a sequence of related events or reflections. The source file, \"battle_pieces_and_aspects_of_the_war.txt,\" is part of the larger \"Melville Complete Works\" collection.\n\n## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details\nThe poem \"The Surrender at Appomattox.\" describes the end of the Civil War, using imagery of rivers, armies, and the natural world. It references the \"Abrahamic river\" and \"Europe's marge,\" suggesting a broad scope. The poem also includes the lines \"Aurora-Borealis. Commemorative of the Dissolution of Armies at the Peace. (May, 1865.)\" and \"The Released Rebel Prisoner. (June, 1865.)\", indicating the poem's subject matter and potential date of composition. The poem reflects on the war's conclusion and the disbanding of armies.\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:23.651Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"The Surrender at Appomattox.","end_line":3116,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:35.910Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"The Surrender at Appomattox.","source_file":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","start_line":3040,"text":"The Abrahamic river--\r\n  Patriarch of floods,\r\nCalls the roll of all his streams\r\n  And watery mutitudes:\r\n      Torrent cries to torrent,\r\n        The rapids hail the fall;\r\n      With shouts the inland freshets\r\n        Gather to the call.\r\n\r\n    The quotas of the Nation,\r\n      Like the water-shed of waves,\r\n    Muster into union--\r\n      Eastern warriors, Western braves.\r\n\r\n    Martial strains are mingling,\r\n      Though distant far the bands,\r\n    And the wheeling of the squadrons\r\n      Is like surf upon the sands.\r\n\r\n    The bladed guns are gleaming--\r\n      Drift in lengthened trim,\r\n    Files on files for hazy miles--\r\n      Nebulously dim.\r\n\r\n    O Milky Way of armies--\r\n      Star rising after star,\r\n    New banners of the Commonwealths,\r\n      And eagles of the War.\r\n\r\nThe Abrahamic river\r\n  To sea-wide fullness fed,\r\nPouring from the thaw-lands\r\n  By the God of floods is led:\r\n      His deep enforcing current\r\n        The streams of ocean own,\r\n      And Europe’s marge is evened\r\n        By rills from Kansas lone.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAurora-Borealis.\r\nCommemorative of the Dissolution of Armies at the Peace.\r\n(May, 1865.)\r\n\r\n\r\nWhat power disbands the Northern Lights\r\n  After their steely play?\r\nThe lonely watcher feels an awe\r\n  Of Nature’s sway,\r\n    As when appearing,\r\n    He marked their flashed uprearing\r\nIn the cold gloom--\r\n  Retreatings and advancings,\r\n(Like dallyings of doom),\r\n  Transitions and enhancings,\r\n    And bloody ray.\r\n\r\nThe phantom-host has faded quite,\r\n  Splendor and Terror gone--\r\nPortent or promise--and gives way\r\n  To pale, meek Dawn;\r\n    The coming, going,\r\n    Alike in wonder showing--\r\nAlike the God,\r\n  Decreeing and commanding\r\nThe million blades that glowed,\r\n  The muster and disbanding--\r\n    Midnight and Morn.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Released Rebel Prisoner.[18]\r\n(June, 1865.)\r\n\r\n\r\nArmies he’s seen--the herds of war,\r\n  But never such swarms of men\r","title":"The Surrender at Appomattox."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9","peer_type":"poetry_collection","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AJPZHPVK3XF34J169DF31","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AJPZHF488ZNMXR1W3RSBJ","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:40.529Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:24.431Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}