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Whitman Archive Title: The Army Hospitals
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Whitman Archive ID: tex.00288
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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
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Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
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Date: 1863
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Partial manuscript draft of an essay about the Civil War army hospitals.
From its relationship with another manuscript now at the University of
Virginia (tex.00097), it is clear that this manuscript represents a
prepublication stage of the article "The
Great Army of the Sick," which was published in the
New-York Times
on February 26,
1863. Whitman later used a part of the published article (a
part that has no parallel in the present manuscript) for the
one-paragraph description of the "Patent
Office Hospital" in
Memoranda During
the War
(1875–76), labelled "
Feb. 23.
"
The paragraph later appeared as "Patent-Office Hospital" in
Specimen
Days & Collect
(1882–1883) and in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). Whitman's revision of the title (which he made
by cutting the top of the leaf, turning it over, and writing a new
title) indicates both that he originally imagined this to be the first
of a series of articles and that the present manuscript was intended to
serve as a printer's copy.
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