Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 8 July 1863 a machine readable transcription Thomas Jefferson Whitman Dennis Berthold Kenneth M. Price Transcription and encoding Elizabeth Lorang Vanessa Steinroetter Tim Jackson Kathryn Kruger April Lambert Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2008 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 loc.00417 Thomas Jefferson Whitman Dennis Berthold Kenneth M. Price Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman Kent, Ohio Kent State University Press 1984 63 Thomas Jefferson Whitman Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 8 July 1863 July 8, 1863 Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Thomas Jefferson Whitman Walt Whitman added schematron declaration converted to P5 proofreading changes proofread and modified updated TEI header checked and proofed Transcribed, Encoded [Brooklyn, N. Y.] July 8th 1863 Dear Walt,

Mr Lane is again very anxious about his boy, his name is Horace G. Tarr, and is Sergeant Major of the 20th Reg. of Connecticut Vol. If by chance you should hear anything of him will you please write. His Reg. belonged to the 12th army Corps, and I think were in the hottest of the fight. I sent you a letter last week with $14 in it and another yesterday with $10. Did you get them both? We are all well at home. The rejoicing in New York is sincere and almost universal and yet a few, (and yet only a few when compared with the immense city) who try to find some reason why Lee should have been whipped. Copperheads are getting out of circulation being laid up for a future contingency. Hope to hear from you soon. Dont forget me.

Yours truly Jeff