[Private Stewart C. Glover]

Whitman Archive Title: [Private Stewart C. Glover]
Whitman Archive ID: tex.00249
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
Date: about 1875
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
View Images: 1 | 2
Content: One manuscript leaf, inscribed on both sides, describing a young soldier who died after being wounded during the Battle of the Wilderness during the Civil War. Most of the writing is in an unknown hand, possibly that of "R. H. Foote," whose name appears on the manuscript. The text of this manuscript contributed to "Death of a Hero," which was first published in Memoranda during the War in 1875–76 and later reprinted in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–83) and in Complete Prose Works (1892).