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Date
- 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."
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Editorial note
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This manuscript appears to be draft material for the two linegroups Whitman added in 1871. The added lines, along with the title change, introduce the new imagery of ashes.
The verso of leaf #1 is blank.
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Location
- Beat! Beat! Drums! | The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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Whitman Archive ID
- loc.00054
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