of his book of Civil War poems, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). Shortly after Sarah's death, Caroline Whitmarsh paid tribute to her in the local press as a woman of great intelligence and sympathy, and she specifically mentioned her power to inspire "men of genius." Melville was one of those present when Sarah was buried in Pittsfield, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. sent Sarah's family a poem written in her memory. Sources Garner, Stanton (1993). The Civil War World of Herman Melville. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1861). Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny. Boston: Ticknor and Fields.Melville in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates. (2015) Ed. Steven Olsen-Smith. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. Rogin, Michael (1983). Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville. New York: Knopf. Parker, Hershel. (1996) Herman Melville: A Biography, 1819–1851. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Parker, Hershel. (2002) Herman Melville: A Biography, 1851–1891. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Shelden, Michael (2016). Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins. Smith, J.E.A. (1895). The Poet Among the Hills: Oliver Wendell Holmes in Berkshire. Pittsfield: George Blatchford. References External links Melville in Love web site History of Broad Hall, Lost New England'' 1823 births 1863 deaths 19th-century American women writers American women poets American literary historians American women historians Women literary historians 19th-century American poets