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The Child's Champion

  • Date: November 20, 1841
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

She who sat on the door-step was a widow; her neat white cap covered locks of gray, and her dress though

The Child-Ghost; A Story of the Last Loyalist

  • Date: May 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"The old occupants of this place," continued the white-haired narrator, "were well off in the world,

His cheeks were white with excitement; ferocity gleamed in every look and limb; and the frightened Gills

"All white!"

continued the miserable, conscience-stricken creature; "all white, and with the grave-clothes around

The Tomb-Blossoms

  • Date: January 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I stopped and leaned my back against the fence, with my face turned toward the white marble stones a

White hairs, and pale blossoms, and stone tablets of Death!

The Last of the Sacred Army

  • Date: March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

length of years seldom vouchsafed to his kind; and his head was thinly covered with hair of a silvery whiteness

assured him I was not jesting, he began telling me of former times, and how it came to be that this white-haired

In a short time, as the white-haired ancient was out of sight, the square was cleared, and I stood in

The Angel of Tears

  • Date: September 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

clouds about him, might not be contemned condemned , even by the Princes of the Nighest Circle to the White

Swaying above the prostrate mortal, the Spirit bends his white neck, and his face is shaded by the curls

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 7, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Learning far out of an open window, appeared a white draperied shape, its face possessed of a wonderful

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"The path," said the new comer, "will be dark, and the white man's taunts hot, for the last hour of a

We will laugh in the very faces of the whites. Arrow-Tip smiled, quietly.

Tell them of the customs of those white people—our own are the same—which require of him who destroys

to grounds where they never would be annoyed, in their generation at least, by the presence of the white

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 8, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—( A Hymn for Children )," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

Annotations Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The Fireman's Dream

  • Date: March 31, 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I am a white man by education and an Indian by birth.

They had heard of the tricks of the cunning savages to lure the whites to destruction; and were somewhat

Sometimes I think that my tribe might have been destroyed in war, either with the whites or with people

The Death of Wind-Foot

  • Date: June 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

HREE hundred years ago—so heard I the tale, not long since, from the mouth of one educated like a white

Dumb Kate.—an Early Death

  • Date: May 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There stands a little white stone at the head, and the grass In Collect , "the grass" is replaced by

Eris; A Spirit Record

  • Date: March 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

themselves might well be drunken to gaze thereon—with fleecy robes that but half apparel a maddening whiteness

The delicate ones bent their necks, and shook as if a chill blast had swept by—and white robes were drawn

The Little Sleighers. A Sketch of a Winter Morning on the Battery

  • Date: September 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This huge, white sheet, glancing back a kind of impudent defiance to the sun, which shone sharply the

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South. [Composite Version]

  • Date: November 16–30, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

connected with the early settlers, and with the several tribes of Indians who lived in it before the whites

After a time, some of the white-aproned subordinates of the place came to him, roughly broke his slumbers

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Annotations Text:

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

The Boy-Lover

  • Date: May 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We took our seats round the same clean, white table, and received our favorite beverage in the same bright

placid face, and the same untrembling fingers—him that seventh day saw a clay-cold corpse, shrouded in white

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 1, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

been at some doubt whether to class this strange and hideous creature with the race of Red Men or White—for

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 6, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

dame a drink of water, he, ten months afterwards, frightened the woman half to death, by wrapping a white

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 2, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I had heard that the white man knew a hundred remedies for ills, of which we were ignorant—ignorant both

He and a younger brother, named from his swiftness the Deer, frequently had intercourse with the white

Franklin Evans; Or, the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times

  • Date: November 23, 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Intemperate men were frequently portrayed as white men who, during the course of their descent into poverty

The epigraph is stanzas xxx–xxxi from "The Ages," by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878); the lines appear

connected with the early settlers, and with the several tribes of Indians who lived in it before the whites

After a time, some of the white-aproned subordinates of the place came to him, roughly broke his slumbers

One of them, I noticed, had the figure of a fair female, robed in pure white.

Annotations Text:

Intemperate men were frequently portrayed as white men who, during the course of their descent into poverty

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 19, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

After a time, some of the white-aproned subordinates of the place came to him, roughly broke his slumbers

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 16, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

connected with the early settlers, and with the several tribes of Indians who lived in it before the whites

Death in the School-Room. A Fact.

  • Date: August 1841
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The perspiration ran down his white forehead like rain-drops. "Speak, sir!"

His countenance turned to a leaden whiteness; the ratan dropped from his grasp; and his eyes, stretched

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 24, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Annotations Text:

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Arrow-Tip

  • Date: March 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

been at some doubt whether to class this strange and hideous creature with the race of Red Men or White—for

I had heard that the white man knew a hundred remedies for ills, of which we were ignorant—ignorant both

"The path," said the new comer, "will be dark, and the white man's taunts hot, for the last hour of a

We will laugh in the very faces of the whites!" A RROW -T IP smiled, quietly.

Tell them of the customs of these white people—our own are the same—which require of him who destroys

Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: July and August 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

What, and who was that white figure there? "Forbear! In Jehovah's name forbear!"

Leaning far out of an upper window, appeared a white-draperied shape, its face possessed of a wonderful

The first, titled "The White Dove.—( A Hymn for Children )," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

Annotations Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The Child and the Profligate

  • Date: October 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These versions are described in William G.

She who sat on the door step was a widow; her neat white cap covered locks of gray, and her dress, though

Some Fact-Romances

  • Date: December 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Austen, Wilmerding and Co., auctioneers, were located at 30 Exchange Street, corner of William."

turned by melo-dramas and the J ACK S HEPPARD Jack Sheppard was a popular nineteenth-century novel by William

The Love of the Four Students

  • Date: December 9, 1843
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We took our seats round the same clean white table, and received our liquor in the same bright tankards

Richard Parker's Widow

  • Date: April 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Neale, Narrative of the Mutiny at Nore (London: William Tegg, 1861).

toast, Mabbott (p. 122) remarks that Pelham (and sundry sources) state that Parker drank a glass of white

Annotations Text:

toast, Mabbott (p. 122) remarks that Pelham (and sundry sources) state that Parker drank a glass of white

Shirval: A Tale of Jerusalem

  • Date: March 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

At the word, the white vestments wherewith they had bound S HIRVAL began to move.

His limbs felt the wondrous impulse—he rose, and stood up among them, wrapped in his shroud and the white

Important Ecclesiastical Gathering at Jamaica, L. I.

  • Date: 9 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

J., (New York: The Williams Printing Company, 1887), 52; Murgatroyd, Rev. E.

William P.

William B.

City Photographs

  • Date: 16 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hammersley, who served an equally long time; William Hammersley was one of the earliest physicians and

It is a large apartment, very clean of course, white-washed, with high-ceilings, well-lighted, perhaps

What Stops the General Exchange of Prisoners of War?

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

latter have been and are ready to exchange man for man as far as prisoners go, (certainly all the whites

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

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

William "Filibuster" Walker was a doctor, lawyer, and newspaper editor whose nickname stemmed from his

Our Brooklyn Boys in the War

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

Matthew Partridge, William Gill, DEATHS OF BROOKLYN MEN.

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

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

I step softly over and find by his card that he is named William Cone, of the First Maine Cavalry, and

Missouri, Iowa, and all the Western States, temporarily camped here in Sherman's Union Major General William

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper.)

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

There are two or three large stoves, and the prevailing white of the walls is relieved by some ornaments

O'Connor, the wife of William Douglas O'Connor.

Through the rich August verdure of the trees see that white group of buildings off yonder in the outskirts

Harewood Hospital, a model hospital like Judiciary Square and Lincoln, was built on the estate of William

Brooklyniana, No. 5

  • Date: 4 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

"David and William Campbell, Builders. April 6, 1808." TO BE CONTINUED. This piece is unsigned.

From Washington

  • Date: 22 September 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From late June through the middle of October 1863, forces under Union General William S.

trees, through all the streets and in the well-kept public grounds, and through this green, the milky white

Brooklyniana, No. 4

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Three beads of this black money, and six of white, were equivalent to an English penny, or a Dutch stuyver

Brooklyniana, No. 10

  • Date: 8 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

Brooklyniana, No. 7

  • Date: 18 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Kerosine.......... 200,000 Saleratus......... 50,000 Starch............ 30,000 Vinegar........... 12,000 White

lead........ 1,250,000 Whiting........... 68,000 Lamps, lanterns, & gas fixtures. 125,000 Stoves....

The White Lead factory gives employment to two hundred and twenty-five men.

The Brooklyn White Lead Works, established in 1822, was the oldest white lead factory in the state of

Annotations Text:

.; The Brooklyn White Lead Works, established in 1822, was the oldest white lead factory in the state

Brooklyniana, No. 8

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

was of an ancient primitive kind, very staid, without any cheering, but then a plentiful waving of white

number of "old revolutionaries" on the ground, and along the line of march; and their bent forms and white

Brooklyniana, No. 6

  • Date: 11 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thomas Kirk, William Hartshorne, the veteran of United States printers Early type-setting experience.

Hartshorne, William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Whitman.

We have spoken of William Hartshorne—he was the veteran printer of the United States.

Of William Hartshorne, for the fifteen or twenty years previous to his death, the old man was often to

Brooklyniana, No. 11

  • Date: 15 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

Brooklyniana, No. 13.

  • Date: 1 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There, too, is Rockaway beach, so white and silvery, calm and pleasant, enough, perhaps, with its long-rolling

Brooklyniana, No. 15

  • Date: 15 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as we write, remember the scene, now more than thirty-five years ago—the group of bent, thin-faced, white-haired

Sale, William A. Sale was one of the builders of Old St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn.

William Furman served as county judge before Leffert Lefferts. Secretary—Freeman Hopkins.

William Quinn. The African M. E.

Church was the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for which William Quinn was the first and only church-planting

An Old Landmark Gone

  • Date: 9 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

In time, it too gave place, and was also torn down, to make room for the present white marble church

William Hartshorne, William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Walt Whitman.

Our Veterans Mustering Out

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

White Sulphur Springs.

White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along the

The resort of White Sulphur Springs was turned into a hospital in 1862 and cared for both Union and Confederate

A major battle at White Sulphur Springs took place the following summer, but George Whitman was not involved

Hill, Major General Henry Heth, and Major General William Mahone. loss slight. September 30.

Annotations Text:

.; White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along

The resort of White Sulphur Springs was turned into a hospital in 1862 and cared for both Union and Confederate

A major battle at White Sulphur Springs took place the following summer, but George Whitman was not involved

An Old Brooklyn Landmark Going

  • Date: 10 October 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Then among the crowd you would see the tall stout shoulders of Joseph Sprague, with his white head; Before

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