[September & October 1863] | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: [September & October 1863]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00149
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box: 1
Folder: Address Books 1863, Sept.–Oct.
Series: Diaries, Diary Notes, and Address Books
Date: 1863
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: about 21 leaves, 10 x 7 cm, handwritten
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Content: A notebook bound by Whitman and tied with red ribbon. It contains addresses of many soldiers hospitalized at Armory Square Hospital in Washington. Short case histories follow most of the names. Also contains trial lines for the poem "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night," first published in 1865 (see images 7, 11-14 and 16 for material related to "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night").