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Ashes of heroes

About This Item

  • Title: Ashes of heroes
  • Date: About 1870–1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00054
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from The Walt Whitman Archive I: Whitman Manuscripts at the Library of Congress, ed. Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:158. The transcription was then checked against digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This manuscript was likely composed around 1870–1871, when Whitman was revising and expanding the poem "Hymn of Dead Soldiers," originally published in Drum-Taps (1865), for republication as "Ashes of Soldiers."
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Ashes of heroes." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.00054.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
Added inline purple with double underline
Uncertain gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source turquoise with brackets
Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
  [begin leaf 1 recto] Ashes of heroes, ? soldiers, blended  
 with ashes of roses  
 & lilacs, Ashes cerulean blended fused with  
 the ashes of gray, Ashes of pine & palmetto  
 blended, Ashes of North and South—ashes  
 of East & West, Ashes of seaboard & inland  
 ashes of valle prairie, &  
 hill & valley rich A sSacred aroma & powd  
 powder‑odor & dust  
 immortal, curious   [begin leaf 1 verso] 2.05.1280.29a   [begin leaf 2 recto] The Soul of their Ashes  
  rising, ? risen   [begin leaf 2 verso]
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