Content:
Proof of "Old
War-Dreams" with note at bottom in Whitman's hand: "Walt
Whitman's New Book." This poem was published first, in a different form,
as "In Clouds Descending,
in Midnight Sleep" in 1865-1866.
In 1871 it
appeared under the title "In Midnight Sleep." The title "Old War-Dreams" was first applied in 1881.
