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Please to remember me to Miss Lowell Brown , Benedict, Bartlett, & Chas Cate —also to all others of my
I found my trunk up at Fort Schuyler all right the morning I left home.
My Dear Sir I had the honor to recive the fiew lines you addressed to me, which was delivered by my particular
In my humble opinion there is nothing so well calculated to inspire a soldier with new courage and fresh
acquaintance may ripen into a mutual attachment The preasent you sent me I received for which accept my
for somehow I was thinking from your letters lately whether you was as well as usual or not—write how my
army this spring, to the utmost—they are sending down many to their reg'ts that are not fit to go, in my
Washington—We have had quite a snow storm, but is clear & sunny to-day here, but sloshy, I am wearing my
On March 6, George wrote to his mother: "I found my trunk up at Fort Schuyler all right the morning I
I have made up my mind that the camp hospitals are pretty well cleaned out, the worst cases are here
The more I see of them in the Army, the higher & broader my estimate of them.
So, doctor, I still remain here in Washington, occupying my time nearly altogether among the wounded
duty is verry hard now on our regiment especily for it is pretty small well now I will have to close my
letter by saying good by my dear friend walt Bethuel Smith to Walt Whitman, 28 February 1864
Friend Walt, I have been setting at the foot of what I call my bed idoly speculating, on the past, and
met and called them Friends how often the word Friend, is missplace, but you have told me you were my
Friend and called me your young Friend, I thank you for that priveledge from the inmost recess of my
camp, expecting to meet you there I was sorrowfully disapointed on my arrival there to find that my
little Wife and my home, to enjoy a few of your leisure hours cheerfully.
He was promoted to full captain in the 25th New York Cavalry on 1 Jul 1864.
Our captain though[t] he would run the risk and save the time (it takes some time longer to go through
gather something about his early relationship with Walt on the basis of the latter's short sketch, "My
always find they like to have me very much, it seems to do them good, no doubt they soon feel that my
away some gay tunes now, though it is quite late at night—Mother, I dont know whether I mentioned in my
region, makes a good officer—Mother, I could get no pen & ink tonight—Well, dear Mother, I send you my
army as a first lieutenant in the Eighty-fourth New York Infantry on May 23, 1861, and was appointed captain
Somerville February 12, 1864 My dear Walt Whitman.
I have seen the new moon over my right shoulder to some purpose lately.
Give my love to the O'Connors. Good bye. Your friend, J. T. Trowbridge John T.
biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My
Though Trowbridge was not an idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my
On October 18, 1863, Babbitt was depressed—"dark clouds seem to be lying in my pathway and I can not
remove them nor hide them from my mind"—until he mentioned his beloved, Nellie F.
Of the O'Connors, Thomas Jefferson Whitman wrote on June 13, 1863: "I am real glad, my dear Walt, that
Friend Walter, Sir accordain to promis I now embrace this opportunity of informing you of my Safe arrival
My Friends gave me a warm reception Such as how are you Bush got robed did you &c I told them how it
I had the pleasure of meeting my Capt G.
laugh at me for not being sharper I told them it would be all right in cours of time live & learn is my
If you dont I do and I long for to see mine very much and I think she will want to see me— give my letter
biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My
Though Trowbridge was not an idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my
a week —so I thought I would write you a few lines now, to let you know— Mother, I suppose you got my
want to go down in camp once more very much—& I think I shall be back in a week—I shall spend most of my
you are well & in good spirits & Jeff & Mat & all, & dear little California & Hattie—I send them all my
afterwards that he (the sick man) had not eat so much at a meal, in three months—Mother, I shall have my
My Dear Friend Walter I now take my pen to Write you a few lines to let you know that I am Well and I
opens We Will have enof to do I think that this summer is agoing to settil this War I am Willing to do my
want more than two or three days)—I want to see George, (I have his photograph on the wall, right over my
probably George will come out & see her, & that if he does you will send her word beforehand— Jeff, my
best way to enjoy a visit home, after all—When I come home again, I shall not go off gallivanting with my
& more shaky—how they can make any headway against our new, large & fresh armies next season passes my
it was made to me only as there was no one else in hearing at the moment—(he is quite an admirer of my
Dear brother I hardly know what to say to you in this letter for it is my first one to you but it will
not be my last I should have written to you before but I am not a great hand at written and I have ben
very buisy fixing my tent for this winter and I hope you will forgive me and in the future I will do
I send you my love and best wishes. Good by from Your Brother, Sergt Thomas P Sawyer P.S.
Friend Whitting, Sir, We received your kind and welcome letter inquiring for my boy Billy and in reply
Kirkwood and is the money spoken of in my letter from Copake. The other $1 is from John D. Martin.
The entry which begins, "I find this in my notes" (see images 35, 36, and 38) was revised and used in
leafhandwritten; A scrap of Civil War memoranda headed "51st N Y V" in which Whitman mentions the death of Captain