Content:
This manuscript is a draft of a piece first published as "May 12—A
Night Battle, over a week since" in
Memoranda During the War
in 1876 and
later, as "A
Night Battle over a Week Since", in
Specimen
Days & Collect
(1882–1883) and in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
Content:
This manuscript contains a passage about a war night scene of "flitting souls"
which would appear, with revisions and additions, with the title of "A Night Battle, Over a Week
Since" in
Memoranda During the
War
in 1876 (later retained in
Complete Prose Works
, published in 1892).
Whitman Archive Title: [the fighting was Saturday night]
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.
