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- # Dedication
## Overview
This entity is the "Dedication" section of Herman Melville's poetry collection, *Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War*. It is a textual component, identified as "frontmatter," spanning lines 13 through 18 of the source file.
## Context
The dedication is part of the larger collection, [Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.](arke:01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9), which is included in the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. This dedication was extracted from the file named [battle_pieces_and_aspects_of_the_war.txt](arke:01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8). It follows the [Introduction](arke:01KG8AJJNPQZQ5GQ16Q6834ZGQ) and precedes the [Preface](arke:01KG8AJJNKP7P5DWBXVEGZF4A3).
## Contents
The dedication honors "The Three Hundred Thousand" who died in the war for the Union. It specifically mentions those who "fell devotedly under the flag of their fathers."
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- The Battle-Pieces in this volume are dedicated to the memory of the
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND who in the war for the maintenance of the Union
fell devotedly under the flag of their fathers.
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- Dedication