| Consider Herman Melville's 1866 poem, "On the Photograph of a Corps Commander," from his Civil War collection, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). |
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| Consider Herman Melville's 1866 poem, "On the Photograph of a Corps Commander," from his Civil War collection, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). |
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| About to be confronted with the wounded men for the first time, Tribulation Periwinkle, the nurse-heroine of Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches, responds by imagining herself a soldier. |
