Content:
A clean, late draft of lines published in the poem "A March in the Ranks
Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown," first published in 1865. On the
verso are prose notes about various corps of Civil War soldiers.
Content:
A small, homemade notebook which contains, among other notes, an account
of the retreat following the battle of White Oaks Church, as told to
Whitman by Milton Roberts. Whitman used many of the scences from
Roberts's story in the poem, "A March in the
Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown," first published in
Drum-Taps
(1865). Adam
Bradford writes about this notebook and its connection to "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road
Unknown"; see "Re-Collecting
Soldiers: Walt Whitman and the Appreciation of Human Value,"
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
27.3 (Winter 2010),
127-52.
Whitman Archive Title: [hear outside the orders given]
Content:
Five partly cropped lines from a draft of the poem "A March in the Ranks
Hard-Pressed, and the Road Unknown," first published in
Drum-Taps
in 1865. The manuscript on the reverse side, tex.00461, is perhaps related to the essay "The Real War will never get in the Books," published in
Specimen Days
(1882–83).
