Content:
Notes and memoranda of the Civil War, some of which contributed to "Fifty-first New-York City Veterans," published in the 29 October 1864 issue of the
New-York Times
.
Whitman Archive Title: [some interesting items of 51st]
Content:
A notebook on the 51st New York Veterans in which Whitman recorded notes on George W. Whitman and other soldiers in that regiment, including their involvement in the war and snippets of biographical information. While significant passages from this notebook cannot be found verbatim in Whitman's published work, it is clear that these notes contributed to Whitman's Civil War writings, including "Fifty-first New-York City Veterans,"
New-York Times
, 29 October 1864; "Fifty-first New-York Volunteers,"
New-York Times
, 24 January 1865; and "Return of a Brooklyn Veteran,"
Brooklyn Daily Union
, 16 March 1865.
Content:
A small scrap of paper with Whitman's notes on the 51st New-York Veterans, his account of which was published in the 29 October 1864 issue of the
New-York Times
as "Fifty-first New-York City Veterans."
Content:
A partial draft of "Fifty-first New-York City
Veterans," which appeared in the 29 October
1864 issue of the
New-York
Times
. The verso of this draft includes snippets of prose,
some of which Whitman included in various Civil War writings. The "Case of
Catholic priest & altar &c at side of dying Irish boy" was
included in
Memoranda During the War
(1876). The notes on female nurses during
the war were used in "Female Nurses for
Soldiers," first published under the heading, "A Few Words about Female Nurses for
Soldiers," in "The
Soldiers,"
New-York Times
(6 March
1865). This prose piece was reprinted in both
Memoranda During the War
(1876) and
Specimen Days &
Collect
(1882).
