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Mother, I am feeling very well these days—my head that was stopt up so & hard of hearing seems to be
hulls on—I go down to market sometimes of a morning & buy two or three quarts, for the folks I take my
little girl, (lost a fine boy about a year ago)—they have two rooms in the same house where I hire my
will have it so—that's the way it has gone on now over five months, & as I say they won't listen to my
insisted on going to market, (it is pleasant in the cool of the morning,) and getting the things, at my
Of the O'Connors, Jeff wrote on June 13, 1863: "I am real glad, my dear Walt, that you are among such
letters)—some like to have me feed them (wounded perhaps in shoulder or wrist) perhaps a few bits of my
succoring of the stomach (which is of course most welcome & indispensable) I should say that I believe my
I have formed attachments here in hospital, that I shall keep to my dying day, & they will the same,
Cotrel, Nicholas Wyckoff, & Thomas Sullivan, for my poor men here in hospital.
My health, thank God, was never better—I feel strong & elastic—an obstinate cold & deafness some weeks
Richmond & Jeff Davis, by this short but tremendous little campaign, of 2d, 3d, 4th & 5th inst's, is in my
Love & thanks to you, dear friend, & to those who are aiding my boys.
I had certainly made up my mind that we should meet with partial success certainly, but it seems otherwise
would take 10 cts I send in this letter & get me ten copies of the Eagle with it in—put in 5 more of my
Give my respects to Mr. & Mrs. Brown. Tell Jeff I am going to write to Mr.
If my letters home don't show it, you don't get 'em.
Matty, I send you my best love, dear sister—how I wish I could be with you one or two good days.
Give him my love—& tell Mannahatta her Uncle Walt is living now among the sick soldiers.
Lane promised to "make an effort among my friends here to keep you supplied with funds all summer."
Dear Father I now take the plesure of fulfilling my promace a writing to you hoping those few lines will
find you well 1 am getting better fast i am at home now i got home after noon my famly is well i left
long to see yo and have a long talk with yo It rains here this morning and to day is lection one of my
My own opinion is that he will not recover, that he cannot last long.
do Andrew a great deal of good In the letter that Mother received yesterday from you, you speak abt my
worries you without doing any good, and another thing it is not like you think in regard to cutting down my
Give yourself no thought abt my worring. Something that I have got entirely past.
Dear Walter As I am not a going out to day I thought that my time could not be better imployed than by
Sawyer to day he is well. he sayes that they have bin on the move so that he could not answer my letter
thing about your letter—he is a going to try to get a pass to come up hear this winter— Conserning my
self I am about old fassion. my leg mends slowly (about as it was when you wer hear) I have bin out
Dear boy, death has not blotted out my love for him, the remembrance will be not sad only but sweet.
You will either see me or hear of me in Brooklyn at my mother's, Louisa Whitman, Portland avenue, 4th
I thank you, dear sir, in their name, and in my own, as the organ of your charity.
My friend, I must meet you soon again.
My sister, Mrs Charles P.
I inclose you to-day $30, the result of an application to my friends, the Misses Wigglesworth.
I was glad you gave Emma Price my direction here, I should like to hear from Mrs Price & her girls first
got along better than I would have thought, but the last week I have felt it more, have felt it in my
head a little—I no more stir without my umbrella, in the day time, than I would without my boots.
I am afraid of the sun affecting my head, & move pretty cautious—Mother, I think every day, I wonder
I send you my love, dear mother, & to all, & wish Jeff & you to write as often as you can— Walt Whitman
Mother, I have nothing particular to write about—I see & hear nothing but new & old cases of my poor
would literally sink & give up, if I did not pass a portion of the time with them—I have quite made up my
the way I shall put it in operation—you know, mother, it is to raise funds to enable me to continue my
everywhere & receive no pay — Dear, dear mother, I want much to see you & dear Matty too, I send you both [my
I have very little time tis true, yet I endeavor by writing rapidly to have time to keep up my correspondence
Have I not my hands full by the way you wish to know what Jones Hotel is.
I send my Photo and shall expect one of the Prince of Bohemia by return I will write in a few days.
My ambition points to this branch for myself I feel qualified for an inspector of Hospitals and I think
Give my kind regard to Amos [Herbert] and others of Campbell Hospital.
The Army of the Potomac "Oh my" what has to come of it I hope to hear of brilliant achievements in that
December 28th/63 Dear brother Walt, My last letter to you was dated from Springfield Mass.
Of course I have had to keep my work up in Brooklyn just the same as if I had not been away,—had to work
a duty to our Mother for her comfort and indeed for her safty and of course I have another stake in my
That iron-clad that sunk at Charleston drownded one of my intimate friends H. W.
He was in my party on the line and was my room-mate for a year.
years I think it would be very bad for him to be put in the lunatic assiliym...i could not find it in my
Dearest Mother, I am late with my letter this week—my poor, poor boys occupy my time very much—I go every
Dear brother, I wish you to say to Probasco & all the other young men on the Works, I send them my love
again—I myself do not give up Hooker yet— Dear mother, I should like to hear from Han, poor Han—I send my
May 27th 1863 Walt Whitman My Dear Friend Enclosed I send you ten dollars.
This is my contribution $5. per month, and is for the months of April and May.
Brooklyn 22nd Sept. 1863 Dear brother Walt, The enclosed $25 is from my old friend Joseph P.
I have written him in some of my letters what you were doing, with short extracts from your letters.
The whole thing in my opinion is one of the biggest of humbugs.
I immediately appealed to my lady friends and patriots in Philadelphia, and they have sent me on a fine
I have never had better health in my life, perhaps I can explain it to you.
My regards to them and hope they are out of Campbell Hospital. What became of poor Dick?
Lane and Probasco, a pretty plain schedule of the manner of my outlays of the sums sent by them to the
Nothing definite appears to-day about the status or movements of the Army of the Potomac, but my guess
one of the putty nosed scoundrel's temporary fits of ugliness, but a deliberate thing meant for good, my
About my own concerns here—I must tell you dear brother, my general idea was, (and is) to make application
, one letter to Seward, and one to Chase, which I hope, (and though I have well learnt not to count my
Mother, I am quite in hopes George will get a furlough—may-be my expectations are unfounded, but I almost
On February 6, 1863, Jeff wrote: "I think I shall be able to carry through my little 'real estate' scheme
some of those battles—I get thinking about it sometimes, & it works upon me so I have to stop & turn my
get them—I sent them & another paper to George—Mother, you none of you ever mention whether you get my
would take away your appetite I know—Mother, I have some idea Han is getting some better, it is only my
idea somehow—I hope it is so from the bottom of my heart—did you hear from Mary's Fanny since?
them, for grandmother will perhaps leave them to you in her will, if you behave like a lady—Matty, my
$5 from Mr Lane had miscarried—this morning when I came down to Major Hapgood's office I found it on my
Mother, what to do about Andrew I hardly know—as it is I feel about as much pity for you as I do for my
cheerfully I would give them, whether they availed any thing for Andrew or not—yet I have long made up my
all do what we can for Andrew—Mother, I think I must try to come home for a month—I have not given up my
Well, dear mother, I must close—I am first rate in health, so much better than a month & two mo's ago—my
ought to be," but attributed the condition to his mother's frugality: "I have not the least doubt in my
had time to rite to you untill now & I have not got much time now the toe is most all healed up but my
foot is swelled so that I can not get my boot on it swelled from walking from the depot out her but
Walt you see I aint got my furlough yet.
or in a case of life and death or something of that sort, so I dont know but they will jew me out of my
down here and see a feller, and if I do go home you must come as soon as I get back, I shall have my
Jim is dissatisfied unless I write pretty often, whether there is any thing to write about or not—My
to heal so that he can sit up, & then gradually move about, & so in due time be able to travel— So, my
friend, farewell for present, & I pray that God may be with you, & though we are strangers I send my
last night we got payed off and to day it is rainey and wet so it quite uncomfortable you must excuse my
have been moving about so I aint had time well no more this time pleas answer this soon as you can my
Washington September 15 1863 Dear Mother Your letters were very acceptable—one came just as I was putting my
unionists I have met in the hospitals, wounded or sick—one young man I guess I have mentioned to you in my
must have been a giant in health, but now he is weaker, has a cough too)—Mother, can you wonder at my
mother, I have writ quite a letter—it is between 2 & 3 o'clock—I am in Major Hapgood's all alone—from my
at 4 o'clock at a Mr Boyle's —I am going—(hope we shall have something good)—dear Mother, I send you my
when I would come in, he woke up, & I would lean down & kiss him, he would reach out his hand & pat my
aye even their young & precious lives, in their country's cause—Poor dear son, though you were not my
So farewell, dear boy—it was my opportunity to be with you in your last rapid days of death—no chance
(in Portland avenue, 4th door north of Myrtle, my mother's residence.)
My address here is care of Major Hapgood, paymaster U S A, cor 15th & F st, Washington D C.
now how long it will last there is some talk of braking up 4 Companies of the 2 Cav & I dont no but my
son in the army it is about 2 O Clock at night now I am on gard sitting by A big fire you must excuse my
magnetism human relations are capable of—I have told you how young & how American they mostly are—so on my
them suffering & dying—Doctor to the other friends that assisted me in Boston & to yourself, I send my
I have just written to Walt, and although it is pretty late, I must write you a few lines while my hand
musent say anything about it Mother or the rebs might hear of it and come over here and eat us all up) my
Well Mother it is getting chilly sitting here in my tent as the fire has gone out, so I must bid you,
Jeff speaks of my trying for a leave of absence but I hardly think it would be of any use at present,
Give my love to all G. W.
Whitman I am in as good health as ever I was in my life George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor
Brooklyn Oct. 8th/63 My dear Walt I yesterday wrote you enclosing the $10 from Mr Kirkwood for the use
Martin "1 " Henry Carlow In my yesterdays letter I said something about the acknowledgement of the moneys
morning mother is not quite so well,—a bad cold—yesterday Jess was sick all day—there is no doubt Walt in my
thousands in the struggle already— Lew, you speak in your letter how you would like to see me—well, my
land & all the items—you say I must excuse you for writing so much foolishness—nothing of the kind—My
have been sun-struck here the last two weeks—I keep shady through the middle of the day lately—Well, my
I have scribbled away any thing, for I wanted to write you to-day & now I must switch off—good by, my
I enjoyed your letter very much, did I tell you so in my note?
I am better of my cough, which has been very bad, and I shall do well I have no doubt, but I get very
were—he asked if you were coming back &c. & when I told him that I had heard & should write you, he said "My
I wish that you were back here in your old room for my sake, for I miss you & shall.
My morning report this morning (and for the last 8 days has been the same) was I—Capt, 2 Sergts 2 Corpls
I suppose the draft must be through with in New York & Brooklyn by this time, I wonder how many of my
another fine Stroke for our side, and Gillmore to at Charleston seems to be getting along well, but its my
I suppose Walt thinks strange of my not writing to him, but as you send my letters around, writing to
I think in A few days I Can put on my boots & not hurt me much of anny there is lots of fruits here
of them ten cents noats if you pleas it is verry loansome here to me I hope that I shall soon gow to my
I had a very pleasant passage and enjoyed the ride very much but yet I found that my wounds were somewhat
how things are moving and will be much pleased to hear from you and I will try to write you more in my
I believe I told you in my last letter about the strange way the baby was born in the Chaplain's—well
past week or so, the heat is bad for the poor wounded men— Well, Lewy, I must now wind up—I send you my
love, my darling son & comrade, & request you to write me soon as convenient, how you are getting along
I was sorry you did not come up to my room to get the shirt & other things you promised to accept from
O my dear comrade & brother, I hope it will prove your good luck to come safe through all the engagements
Now, my dearest comrade, I will bid you so long , & hope God will put it in your heart to bear toward
Fort Bennet, July 21st 1863 Adjutant General Thomas, General: I have the honor to forward this my application
Herewith please see testimonials from my officers. I have the honor General to remain &c.
I always carry a stout double-pocket haversack, filled with things—also large pockets in my coat &c—I
have learnt what is appropriate—I generally carry a bottle of wine—I buy oranges by the box, & fill my
have not had a word from George yet—Mother, I have had quite an attack of sore throat & distress in my
a great effect upon him, & although I told the truth this time it did not have as good a result as my
The equipage is rather shabby, horses indeed almost what my friends the Broadway drivers would call old
here, sat in his carriage while Stanton came out & had a 15 minutes interview with him (I can see from my
sixteen, (about ten bugles, the rest cymbals & drums)—I tell you, mother, it made every thing ring—made my
From the moment my eye rested on the Dr I made up my mind that he was a fool, a regular Doctor.
failing very rapidly indeed, he is a mere shadow of what he ought to be and I have not the least doubt in my
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.
Now I suppose that you would like to know how I enjoy my self: Well I go out most every day but I do
Hospital at Georgetown, so we aint got so many shoulder strapes hear, but we have got enough yet for my
My leg is rather worse this morning & the Doctor sayes that I must stay in bed to day, so I suppose that
Well I think my letter is getting full long as I must begin to think about closing.
scaffold all up—I have not bin up to the Capitol for some time, but probily I will go up on Monday if my
I dont know, certain, that I can get, leave of absence, next week but I thnk my chances are pretty good
nothing at all, about what they brought us here for, but I rather think I was right in the surmise (in my
My dear sir, I was very glad to hear of the receipt of the check I sent you & to know that it had already
system, but without effect— I have received twenty dollars here to be forwarded to you, ($10 cash from my
—have a pretty bad cold, the doctor does not call my disease by any particular name—I have considerable
I send you my love.