{"date":"May 30","id":"05-30","intro":["At the close of the war, a torn and bleeding nation set about to rebuild its shattered frame. The result was a stronger nation rising from an almost disrupted union."],"minutes":12,"readings":[{"author":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","end":1290,"start":1280,"volume":42,"work":"The Building of the Ship"}],"slug":"may-30","status":"proofread","title":"When the Throb of the War Drum Is Stifl’d","url":"/harvard-classics/may-30/","words":2484}