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Untitled

  • Date: 17 May 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I ask for their decipherment from a learned person in my neighborhood.

Untitled

  • Date: 11 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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But to the account of my adventures (for it is now necessary to drop the editorial "we,") last fall,

hook again with "fiddlers," while the fish floundered at a great rate around my feet.

word, accoutred as I was, I plunged—the fish—into an old tin kettle, and gave them, with sixpence and my

the wharf with a boat-hook, and offering his shoulder for me to step on—though, as he was about half my

divided the water—to lie on my back and gaze by the half-hour at the passing clouds overhead—merely

Untitled

  • Date: 25 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Even to my unscientific eyes there were innumerable wonders and beauties all along the shore, and edges

Untitled

  • Date: 1 November 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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I shall remember that dinner to my dying day. We pulled up stakes, and put for home.

and ghost stories, and sang country ditties; but the night and the scene mellowed all, and it came to my

I made my bed in the furled sail, watching the stars as they twinkled, and falling asleep so.

right; but as for me, I fancied I felt the mercury dwindling down, down, down into the very calves of my

Untitled

  • Date: 05 January 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

give even a mere resume of the movements, service, fights, marches, sufferings of the 51st since, as my

He likes his position of Captain of Company G, in which rank he started from Palace Garden; and the men

Captain George Washington Whitman was Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years and was wounded in

A letter from his Captain says: Five of our color guard had either been killed or disabled, when Byram

Annotations Text:

.; Captain George Washington Whitman was Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years and was wounded

Untitled

  • Date: 26 February 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Upon a few of these hospitals I have been almost daily calling as a missionary, on my own account, for

On recurring to my note-book, I am puzzled which cases to select to illustrate the average of these young

Untitled

  • Date: 15 March 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I would offer, as an illustration of my meaning, that, in times of peace, a slightly greater ratio of

Untitled

  • Date: 19 March 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

They have taken up my principal time and labor for some months past.

I always carry some, cut up in small plugs, in my pocket.

I thought I would include in my letter a few cases of soldiers, especially interesting, out of my note-book

, but I find my story has already been spun out to sufficient length.

Nor do I find it ended by my doing some good to the sick and dying soldiers.

Untitled

  • Date: 16 August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

If in his barouche, I can see from my window he does not alight, but sits in the vehicle, and Mr.

"Shining Shores," also called "My Days are Swiftly Gliding By," was written by David Nelson in 1835,

My days are swiftly gliding by, and I a Pilgrim stranger, Would not detain them as I fly, those hours

We'll gird our loins my brethren dear, our distant home discerning.

The sounds and scene altogether had made an indelible impression on my memory.

Annotations Text:

.; "Shining Shores," also called "My Days are Swiftly Gliding By," was written by David Nelson in 1835

Untitled

  • Date: 4 October 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We are soon to see a thing accomplished here which I have often exercised my mind about, namely, the

Not at all, to my eye.

many respects of our constructive nation and age, and even so poetical, that I have even balanced in my

When a train comes to a bad spot in the road this Captain reins in his horse and stands there till they

I find this everywhere, and very pleasing to my sight.

Untitled

  • Date: 11 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Began my visits (Dec. 21, 1862,) among the camp hospitals in Army of the Potomac, under Gen.

, but space forbids my transcribing them.

He said: "It is my chief reliance." He talked of death, and said he did not fear it.

my life and occupation more than I can tell.

Independent Missionary, in my own style, and not as agent of any commission.

Untitled

  • Date: 27 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

To my knowledge it is understood by Col. M ULFORD , Major John E.

In my opinion the Secretary has taken and obstinately held a position of cold-blooded policy, (that is

B UTLER , in my opinion, has also incorporated in the question of exchange a needless amount of personal

In my opinion, the anguish and death of these ten to fifteen thousand American young men, with all the

Untitled

  • Date: 27 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

To my knowledge it is understood by Col. Mulford, Major John E.

In my opinion the Secretary has taken and obstinately held a position of cold-blooded policy, (that is

Major General Butler, in my opinion, has also incorporated in the question of exchange a needless amount

In my opinion, the anguish and death of these ten to fifteen thousand American young men, with all the

Untitled

  • Date: 19 January 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitman, Captain George Washington Whitman, Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years, served in the

December, 1862, was commissioned as Captain; all these steps for conduct in the field.

Annotations Text:

.; Captain George Washington Whitman, Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years, served in the New

Untitled

  • Date: 6 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I found he wanted to go part of the road in my direction, so we walked on together.

My boy was with the former, stepping along with the rest. There were several other boys no older.

were all of pleasant, even handsome physiognomy; no refinement, nor blanched with intellect, but as my

Untitled

  • Date: 12 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ball for Lincoln's Second Inauguration was held in the Patent Office on March 6, 1865. ) and write my

the music will sound and the dancers' feet presently tread—what a different scene they presented to my

But I forego that reception, and finish off with something I have on my mind about no more uncommon topic

Untitled

  • Date: 16 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Captain George W.

Captain Whitman, leaving the Rappahannock with his regiment in February, 1863, now went round with them

many, that a shell, whose explosion had killed two of his company and seriously hurt a third, struck Captain

Petersburg (Virginia, June 9 and June 15–18, 1864) were Confederate victories. and down the Weldon road, Captain

Annotations Text:

.; Captain George W.

Untitled

  • Date: 5 August 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Last fall, our readers may remember, Major Whitman (then Captain) was spoken of by us as at that time

Promoted to Captain. February, 1863.—Left Falmouth with regiment. April, May, etc.

We allude to Captain Daniel E.

District of our city, a brave officer, who fell mortally wounded in May, 1864, in the Wilderness; Captain

O Captain! My Captain!

  • Date: 4 November 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O Captain! My Captain!

Sea Captains, Young or Old

  • Date: 4 April 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sea Captains, Young or Old

Untitled

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From the first I found it necessary to systematize my doings, and, among other things, always kept little

note-books for impromptu jottings in pencil to refresh my memory of names and circumstances and what

But before entering on my personal memoranda of the war, I have one or two thoughts to ventilate before

ABRAHAM LINCOLN—MY FIRST SIGHT AND IMPRESSION OF HIM.

It reads: 'I cannot survive the loss of the liberties of my country.'") THE EVE OF A LONG WAR.

Untitled

  • Date: 21 February 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

MY VISITS AND DISTRIBUTIONS.

Looking from any eminence and studying the topography in my rambles, I use them as landmarks.

I have already distributed quite a large amount of money, put in my hands for that purpose by benevolent

I regularly carry a haversack with me, and my coat has two of the biggest kind of pockets. [ To be Continued

Untitled

  • Date: 7 March 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Here is another characteristic scene of the dark and bloody year 1863, from notes of my visit to Armory

(I think I see my friends smiling at this confession, but I was never more in earnest in my life.)

A GLIMPSE FROM MY NOTES.

I can say that in my ministerings I comprehended all and slighted none.

It has given me my plainest and most fervent views of the true ensemble and extent of the States.

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 19 February 1876
  • Creator(s): [Walt Whitman]
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted as "Out from Behind This Mask: To confront My Portrait, illustrating 'the Wound-Dresser,

Shakespere Bacon's Cipher

  • Date: October 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher.

My Canary Bird

  • Date: 2 March 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My Canary Bird

Annotations Text:

mentions in a letter to Richard Maurice Bucke on February 16, 1888: "it is chilly here as I finish this—my

Queries to My Seventieth Year

  • Date: 2 May 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Queries to My Seventieth Year

Over and through the burial chant

  • Date: 12 August 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted as "Interpolation Sounds" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

When reprinted in "Good-Bye My Fancy," the poem included the note, "General Sheridan was buried at the

To the Year 1889

  • Date: 5 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted under the new title "To the Pending Year" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is

Bravo, Paris Exposition!

  • Date: 28 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original

My 71st Year

  • Date: November 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My 71st Year

Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's

  • Date: February 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

A Twilight Song

  • Date: May 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Revised and reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of

For Queen Victoria's Birthday

  • Date: 24 May 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

It was included without the note in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital

To the Sunset Breeze

  • Date: December 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original

The Pallid Wreath

  • Date: 10 January 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

Old-Age Echoes

  • Date: March 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

poems published as the cluster "Old Age Echoes" in Lippincott's Magazine were reprinted in Good-bye My

Ship Ahoy!

  • Date: 12 March 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

Old Chants

  • Date: 19 March 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Transcribed from a digital image of a micfrofilm copy of an original

Walt Whitman's Poetry in Periodicals

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

Poemet [That shadow, my likeness]," New-York Saturday Press 4 February 1860, 2.

"Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860); "That Shadow My Likeness," Leaves of Grass (1867); slight changes

O Captain! My Captain!" New-York Saturday Press, 4 November 1865, 218.

Walt Whitman's Poems in Periodicals: A Bibliography

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): The Walt Whitman Archive
Annotations Text:

.; An earlier version of this poem entitled "My Departure" appeared in the Long Island Democrat, 23 October

Grass (1871-72).; This poem later appeared as "Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860); as "That Shadow My

November 1878 and as "To the Man-of-War-Bird" in Leaves of Grass (1881–82).; Reprinted in Good-Bye My

Revised and reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; This poem was reprinted in the Critic, 16 (24 May

"; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).

Lippincott's Magazine

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; "Old Age Echoes" was the title given to a collection of four

poems first published in Lippincott's Magazine: Sounds of the WinterReprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (

The Unexpress'dReprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).

Sail Out for Good, Eidólon YachtReprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).

After the ArgumentReprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Published with the subtitle "For unknown buried soldiers,

Revised and reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

The Critic

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted under the new title "To the Pending Year" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Reprinted in Good-Bye

My Fancy (1891).

New York Herald

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted as "Interpolation Sounds" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

The New-York Saturday Press

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; This poem later appeared as "Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860); as "That Shadow My Likeness,

The New York Daily Graphic

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

"Come, Said My Soul" was reprinted in the New York Daily Tribune, 19 February 1876, and on the title

The New York Daily Tribune

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

[Out from Behind This Mask]Reprinted as "Out from Behind This Mask: To confront My Portrait, illustrating

[Come, said my Soul]According to the Comprehensive Reader's Edition of Leaves of Grass, this poem appeared

Two Rivulets" section of Two Rivulets (1876).; Reprinted as "Out from Behind This Mask: To confront My

Brother Jonathan

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; An earlier version of this poem entitled "My Departure" appeared in the Long Island Democrat, 23 October

The Cosmopolitan

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher."

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