Content:
A notebook on the 51st New York Veterans in which Whitman recorded notes on George W. Whitman and other soldiers in that regiment, including their involvement in the war and snippets of biographical information. While significant passages from this notebook cannot be found verbatim in Whitman's published work, it is clear that these notes contributed to Whitman's Civil War writings, including "Fifty-first New-York City Veterans,"
New-York Times
, 29 October 1864; "Fifty-first New-York Volunteers,"
New-York Times
, 24 January 1865; and "Return of a Brooklyn Veteran,"
Brooklyn Daily Union
, 16 March 1865.
