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about your dismissal from the Interior Department, and as I once read your book, I am moved to express my

the President coming in and we stept back into the East Room and stood near the front windows, where my

It didn't last more than three or four minutes, but there was something about a letter which my friend

I expect to be in Washington on my way down South in a few days and will take the freedom of giving you

Please don't mention my name in connection with what I write about Harlan.

I suppose that you have nearly forgotten me, but if you will think back you will remember a man by my

And now you will please accept my thanks for all the favors that you have shown me while lying then unable

Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American

State Volunteers where he enrolled as first sergeant of Company F (and was eventually promoted to captain

Walt Whitman Dear Friend I am now at my own home but hav not got my discharge yet.

I have to go back to rochester to get my discharge. the day that I left thare went to the patent ofice

them kicked me on the forehead and then they start to run and the wagon wheel struck me on the back of my

My friends their respects Please if get this rite and if you will Please to sennd me that potographs

Come, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols?

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful

O my breast aches with ten- der tender love for all!

See, my children, resolute children, By those swarms upon our rear, we must never yield or falter, Ages

I too with my soul and body, We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way, Through these shores,

There are passages in the lines entitled 'Captain, My Captain,' and in the war-lyric commencing 'Beat

Wood is with [me] here at my old home says it is not very natural here does not seem at all like an hospital

My Dear Uncle W, Your very kind letter of the 16th was duly received and appreciated to the best of my

I do not know whether there are any characters among my neighbors that would interest you particular

My Dear Friend, Tis a long time since I have had the pleasure of hearing from you so I fear you did not

I am getting around quite lively on just a single cane and my health is good.

Now good bye, my good freind and may heaven keep you safe from harm. Anson Ryder, Jun.

I have entirely recovered from my wounds long since and have been at work part of the time and attending

I have been at work about six weeks, consequently my hand is not in very good condition for writing.

I have been promising myself to write to you ever since I returned home but have failed to keep my promise

If I can not go into anything there, what do you think of my going further south, say to Savannah.

I am a married man but I am not happy for my disposition is not right.

On April 21, Wilson acknowledged Whitman's reply of April 12: "I do not want you to misunderstand my

motives in writing to you of my Situation & feelings as I did in my last letter or else I shall have

to be more guarded in my letters to you.

I wrote so because you wanted me to write how I was situated, and give you my mind without reserve, and

My employer is at home but a very small portion of his time.

Troy March 7th 65 Your last letter from Washington in the paper lying on my lap—Your book in the hands

of my friend Lucy who sits there by the window reading it in the morning sunshine.

has a relative—a prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio. he is desirous of obtaining the name of some Captains

, an order to obtain his exchange, by securing the release of the Captains.

Several of my brother officers are desirous of obtaining a copy of "the Reconnysance" by Capt Sim's.

& I would esteem it as a great favor, if you would enclose it, in a letter & send it to my address.

You will please accept a copy of my Ca accounts in exchange for your own.

Brooklyn, New York April 3, 1865 Captain George W.

(from which latter place he was paroled one month since,)—and that in my opinion it is now unsafe for

Captain Geo W Whitman 51 N.Y. Vols SC 20 days Edward Ruggles to U.S.

My heart is torn and my sympathies roused as never by anything before at the way our prisoners are treated

We are all very well, I am much better than I was last winter, my summer at the sea-shore & the sea-bathing

New York 16th Feby '65 My Dear Walt Whitman: On the receipt of your favor of the 26th ult., I arranged

with Captain Walton for the sending of a box to our dear and brave boys at the Danville Military Prison

Captain Wright does not think the boxes will ever reach our boys—but this shall not prevent my trying

Captain Charles W. Walton was a member of the Fifty-first Regiment, New York State Volunteers.

Good Night Mother give my love to all G. W.

course you knew all about his arrival at Anapolis  i saw his name in the times with 500 others arrived)  my

I sleep here in the building (I have a very good room) and take my meals at a Boarding house  I pay 6

to learn he has never been to school as the school is about 2 miles off but he can read right smart. my

would be very happy to see you, we all send our best respects to you and all your friends. you will see my

"Beginning my studies, the first step pleased me so much, The mere fact, consciousness—these forms—the

pleas'd me so much, I have never gone, and never wish'd to go, any further, But stop and loiter all my

Acting Assistant Secretary of State: My dear sir: I have received and read the letter of Mr.

for your dear sake, O soldiers, And for you, O soul of man, and you, love of comrades; The words of my

Whitman as follows: "You came to woo my sister, the human soul.

Your letter would have been more promptly answered, but for my absence from the city.

Upon the receipt of his reply, I will give you my views concerning the expediency of complying with the

Your application for a leave of absence has been referred to me by the Secretary of the Interior for my

Sir: My clerk sent your Commission to you on yesterday, and I requested him to say to you that I would

My Brothers James & Joseph are both well and in the Regt and wish me to return thanks for your kind remembrance

We finished our march to this place last Thursday afternoon and as soon as we halted my Regiment were

My heart is to full to write anything about him, for I cannot tell how well he was liked by the Soldiers

I am pained to say that many of my company secretly rejoiced when we received the news of the assasination

There are a large number of my comrades buried there and I should like to have the satisfaction of seeing

If you see Miss H[oward] please tell her I am sorry she did not call at my company the evening she was

My Dear Friend, I have been thinking about writing you at Brooklyn but as I did not know for certain

have thought of you very often since I saw you and would have gone to Brooklyn to see you again had my

have not been out much since I saw you as the weather would not admit and when the weather is stormy my

her as you know I have good reason to thank her for many a kind turn which she wrought for me during my

Please tell Mr Woods (if you see him) I am enjoying good health and I send my kind regards to him and

Feb. 5 New York My dear Walt— I most cheerfully write the note you request to Gen.

Somerville Mass Jan 6th, 1865 My Dear Friend, I have been thinking much of you lately & wondering where

A great change has taken place in my life since I saw you.

My dearest friend has left me, leaving in her place a little boy, now eleven months old.

LeBarren LeBaron Russell, with your note in my hand, but failing each time, I gave him up .

I feel that, if I live frugally ' sincerely, and do not use up my mental energies in rapid writing I

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

City Point Va Feby 16th 1865 My Dear Friend, The Box for your brother, Captain Whitman, was sent on the

perhaps to receive a note from one whose name even you do not know, but I have long had you down in my

heart as one of my friends, and will tell you all about how I came to write to you now.

Last week I had a letter from my friend Miss M. E.

Often when I am reading it I take the words right home to my heart, and feel stronger and better for

friend forever, though I may never see his face, and this must be my excuse now.

he has gone home to day today Buffalow Buffalo he is very much attached to George he said when the Captain

Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American

Sims, a captain in George Washington Whitman's Fifty-first New York Volunteers, had been the subject

out, George only suffered a minor injury: "I have come out safe and sound, although I had the side of my

jaw slightly scraped with a peice of shell which burst at my feet" (see George's December 16, 1862 letter

Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American

was a gentleman in the cars that said he would see to getting me a carriage i was just giving the man my

check for my valice valise i thought i would take that with me when Charley came up so i got along very

institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my

with George Washington Whitman in the Fifty-first New York Volunteers, and he rose to the rank of captain

Mason who "used to be in my party on the Water Works" in his February 10, 1863 to Walt Whitman.

—1865 June 3 My dear Walt I once more send you A few lines to let you know we are all pretty well it

letter to Hanna yesterday but I have not finished it yet but will try too to to day and to morrow if my

head dont don't hurt me I have considerable distress in my head seems to affect my eyes but is better

after I get up in the morning and wash my eyes in cold water matty is very kind to me when I feel well

part I have got pretty short I wish if you can walt you would send me enoughf enough to pay my rent

help but think so much about him i suppos suppose its because i am here and have the children to take my

want to get some flannel and stocking and a few other things han says she will write to you soon give my

1865 November 14 tuesday Tuesday noon Nv Nov 14 My dear Walt i have waited and waited to hear from you

seems such A short time since last winter but time wont won't wait for us well Walt i dident didn't get my

fool as to use all the money i had in the bank and save the other now i want it and wish i had saved my

you will send me ten dolls dollars not all at one time but if you can send me 5 at the next writing my

1865 Novem November 25 My dear Walt i have been looking for a letter all day but none came so it is saturday

Saturday night and i am alone for A wonder so i thought i would write you a few lines although my paper

in the nation it is a long piece with flourishes) the one in the union made me laughf laugh you got my

a woman to come every day and doo do up her work little jimmy comes as usual no more to night with my

knew all about his arrival at Anapolis Annapolis i saw his name in the times with 500 others arrived) my

brother George Washington Whitman had been exchanged, at least as of his February 27, 1865 letter to Captain

Sunday afternoon My dear Walt wasent wasn't it good to get that from george and so lately i began to

read the names in the times to day today but georges was not amongst them they were all officers Captain

the same feelings but i feel better of it it seemed like as if there was A dozen crickets singing in my

bad feelings and i had A bad could cold in my head i could not sleep at nights but i feel better but

money out off the bank there was only 100) 50 dollar it was all right Jeffy see to it i have paid my

William Cook was a Captain in the 19th U.S. Colored Troops.

institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my

I was in Washington the 2nd and I went to No 34 4 ½ Street and pawned my Watch a good American Lever,

for $22.07 which I was to pay within a month but I was robbed of my pocket Book which contained a receipt

My dear Wife, You must excuse me for not having written to you before.

I have not been very well, & did not feel much like writing—but I feel considerably better now—my complaint

going on—let me know how it is with mother—I write this by means of a friend who is now sitting by my

side— —& I hope it will be God's will that we shall yet meet again—Well I send you all my love, & must

talk of the Vetterans getting out yet: if you have any thing in the way of advice to give concerning my

Books, and I have thought that were bigger fools than me making a living very Easy although I admit my

note by Whitman following the closer that reads, "June 25th '65—I have rec'd many curious letters in my

occasionaly showed some little kindness to—I met him, talked with him some,—he came one rainy night to my

such houses as we were talking about,' are—upon the whole not to be answered—(& yet I itch to satisfy my

The copy of "Leaves of Grass" is at my office subject to your order.

As there was nothing done yesterday & the day before on account of the funeral, my waiting for your reply