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[Hospitals Culpepper]
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Whitman Archive Title: [Hospitals Culpepper]
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00485
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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: 1
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Folder: Diaries, 1863–1864, hospital notebooks (2 vols.)
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Series: Diaries, Diary Notes, and Address Books
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Date: 1863–1864
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 32 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
A Civil War diary in which Whitman recorded notes relating to his
experiences in Washington D.C. during 1863. Some of these notes were used in
"A Case from Second Bull Run," a
short piece about the death of John Mahay, first published in the 11 December 1864 issue of the
New-York Times
under the title "Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers. Visits Among Army Hospitals, At
Washington, on the Field, and here in New-York." Whitman
included this paragraph in
Memoranda During the
War
(1876) and
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882). Other
portions of this diary contributed directly to
Memoranda During the War
and others were first published in
"Letter from Washington,"
New-York Times,
4 October 1863.
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