Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Whitman Archive Title: Pioneers! O Pioneers!

Whitman Archive ID: loc.00263

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: 28

Folder: Pioneers! O Pioneers! (1865). A.MS. draft.

Series: Literary File

Date: about 1865

Genre: poetry

Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 16.5 cm, handwritten

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Content: A draft of the first two stanzas of "Pioneers! O Pioneers!," which was first published in 1865, written in ink on a rough, bluish piece of paper. On the verso is a note in pencil concerning wounded soldiers.