Content:
A homemade notebook containing hospital and Civil War notes that Whitman
recorded between February and May 1864. The entry which
begins, "I find this in my notes" (see images 35, 36, and 38) was
revised and used in "Some War Memoranda.
Jotted Down at the Time," which appeared in
North American Review
(January 1887). This piece was reprinted in
November Boughs
(1888) before
being collected in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). The entry which begins, "ah if it
might prove" (see image 64) was used in
Memoranda
During the War
(1875–1876) and again in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883), in a piece describing Whitman's visit to an army camp hospital in Falmouth, Virginia, in December, 1862, titled "Down at the Front." The essay was later included in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
