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1 Beat! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow!
Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:156.
was inherited by his son, His wife was Phebe Sarah White— Sarah White born about 1713 " died " 180 1
Cunningham Jesse Whitman, jr born June 25, 1776 Died at Dix Hills, Sept. 8, 1845 Sarah Whitman, born Jan. 1,
under chief command of Washington, See 1st edition Reminiscences of Long Island, vol. 2, page 28 or vol 1,
were sold (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
N O . 1, Preserving Traditions; Dutch Foundation of Brooklyn. Ours the real first settlement.
Whitman Walt Whitman to James Russell Lowell, 1 October 1861
George Birkbeck Hill (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1897) 1: 314.
Abo[ut] the 1[st] of Feb. the weather began to get better and some of the lighter draught vessels crossed
(only stopping 1 hour for dinner) when we bivouaced for the night Started at 6 Oclock next morning,
In five minutes all was bustle in the camp and about 1 A.M. on the morning of the 15th we fell in and
went to bed April 24th After breakfast went to the express Office and went to work, worked until 1
July 11th went up to support skirmishers changed our position about 1 P.M. went to the extreme left