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Whitman Archive Title: Ashes of heroes
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00054
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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.
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Box: 26
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Folder: Beat! Beat! Drums! (1861). A. MS. draft.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about 1870-1871
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
Draft of lines which bear a relationship to "Ashes of Soldiers," first published in
1865.
This manuscript was likely composed around 1870-1871, when
Whitman was revising and expanding the poem for republication. This
manuscript appears to be a draft of the first two linegroups of "Ashes of Soldiers."
These linegroups were added in 1871 to a poem first published as "Hymn of Dead Soldiers"
in
Drum-Taps
(1865). It
was only in 1871 that he added the imagery of ashes to this poem.
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