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[the fighting was Saturday night]
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Whitman Archive Title: [the fighting was Saturday night]
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Whitman Archive ID: tex.00245
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
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Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
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Date: about 1875
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Notes about the Battle of Chancellorsville and fragmentary draft material
about the writing of Civil War histories. The draft material contributed
to "A Night Battle, over a week since"
in
Memoranda during the War
(1875–76), an essay later reprinted as "A
Night Battle, Over a Week Since" in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–83) and in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). The manuscript leaf is pasted to a backing sheet,
making the reverse side inaccesssible.
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