New York State furnished | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: New York State furnished
Whitman Archive ID: pml.00087
Repository ID: MA 517
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Repository Title: Fragments from his Civil War diary: autograph manuscript
Date: 1863–1868
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 25 leaves, handwritten
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Content: A manuscript draft of "Army Hospitals and Cases: Memoranda at the Time, 1863–1866," Century Illustrated Magazine (October 1888), a publication which incorporates material from the "'Tis but Ten Years Since" series (specifically the fourth through the sixth papers, which appeared in the New York Weekly Graphic on 21, 28 February, and 7 March 1874, respectively) and Memoranda During the War (1875–1876). However, this manuscript does not seem to have contributed directly to this earlier series of articles or to Memoranda . This manuscript seems to be composed of selections from a Civil War journal that Whitman compiled in preparation for the Century piece, and which he also used in letters sent to his mother during the war. "Army Hospitals and Cases" was revised as "Last of the War Cases" in November Boughs (1888) before it appeared in Complete Prose Works (1892).