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Hannah Brush born Oct. 6 1753 Married, April 22, 1775 died Jan. 6, 1834 The Whitman and Brush families were

Josiah Smith's Regiment of the American Patriot Army of 1776 under chief command of Washington, See 1st

Convention.— The L.I. regiment were hemmed in the lines over We moved to Brooklyn, (Front st.) in May

May 1st 1825.— (Covert, the villain " Across the way, (Van Dyke's) were there 4th July 1826 " Adams st

Were there the first one of cholera summers.

The various dates referenced suggest that the earliest portions of it were written sometime after 1845

earliest date for the writing on the verso is likely March 1853, when the two Cumberland Street houses were

The principal settlements were at Flatbush and according to tradition, the locality toward the shore

Besides their canoes, of which some were large and of elegant workmanship, and their bows and arrows,

almost the only manufactures among them were stone hatchets, and rude vessels of earth, hardened in

The produce of the settlements of the New Netherlands, and of the station at Albany, were principally

The name given to our city in old times spells in different modes.

Magazine (September 17, 1916) and then in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

, that the way he used to paint his pictures was in the following manner: A position and direction were

Sandses, Joshua Sands and his brother Comfort Sands were wealthy landowners in Brooklyn in the early

Titus Titus was probably Abiel Titus, whose barn and slaughterhouse were located on Front Street.

houses in the depth of winter, with driving carts, sleighs, travelers, ladies, gossips, negroes (there were

Magazine (September 17, 1916) and then in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

Magazine (September 17, 1916) and then in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

His residence was situated on Front Street.; Joshua Sands and his brother Comfort Sands were wealthy

John) Garrison was a Brooklyn butcher.; Titus was probably Abiel Titus, whose barn and slaughterhouse were

department—has for some time been working in the provision store—was yesterday told that "his services were

Graham (1824–1889) was constructing engineer of the Brooklyn navy yard; the dry-dock and landing-ways were

the Brooklyn navy yard from 1859 to 1861" (Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans

James Russell Lowell had been the editor at the Atlantic Monthly when Whitman published there in 1860

Then the elections of those days were sometimes held here.

John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms , 2nd ed.

The same offices were apt to be filled with the same persons again and again, year after year.

Here, from the earliest times, were "the polls" for election.

hand that were used in this article, including the piece's full title and sub-title.

However, two leaves in a notebook from the late 1850s or early 1860s (loc.05080) contain notes in Whitman's

hand that were used in this article, including the piece's full title and sub-title.; The Military Garden

; Old Colonel Green opened the Military Garden in 1810.; John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms

credit problems and eventual foreclosure.; The Marquis de Lafayette, a Frenchman who fought in the American

Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America (New York: Knopf, 1995), 37–39.; Before Brooklyn obtained a city charter

James Russell Lowell had been the editor at the Atlantic Monthly when Whitman published there in 1860

Our colors were first planted on the works, but some of the other regts were in almost as soon as we

were concealed, lay there until just about dusk, when we were ordered down to the edge of the wood were

As soon as our regt arrived on the ground we were ordered into a thick peice of woods were the enemy

told we were to stay here, but on the evening of April 2d we were ordered to be ready to march early

We arrested quite a number of citazens, who were noted secessionists,  all those that [were] willing

of an unalterable determination on the other" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American

On the fall of that stronghold they were pushed off under Sherman as part of a small army toward Jackson

Norton, 1973) and Ted Genoways, Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet During the Lost Years of 1860

She goes down in the cars to the baths, in Willoughby street near the City Hall.

The place were where we were first was a hill without a tree or any sort of shade. we are now there are

When we first came here our camp was fired into for three or four nights in succession  there were four

I and half a dozen others were sent out to scout about and see what we could find  we took our pistols

We went out in the city  the chap that gave us the information shewed us the house and we went in and

This city is a regular secession place  as we walk through the streets in the city the Women and children

When the city was placed under martial law by General Butler, Kane resisted the order to surrender the

city's arms and was arrested for protecting contraband traffic in arms and for being the head of a police

Massachusetts was attacked by angry crowds in Baltimore as the troops attempted to pass through the city

Four of its number were killed and many others wounded.

these histories of Brooklyn after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861 and contends that the articles were

See Genoways, Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860–1862 (Berkeley

The principal settlements were at Flatbush, and, according to tradition, the locality toward the shore

Besides their canoes, of which some were large and of elegant workmanship, and their bows and arrows,

furs, peltries, &c., with which the West India Company's return ships were freighted.

Magazine (September 17, 1916) and then in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

these histories of Brooklyn after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861 and contends that the articles were

See Genoways, Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860–1862 (Berkeley

In 1613 there were four houses on Manhattan island, occupied by Europeans—these were down towards where

Emory Holloway, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921), 2:228.

The first serious attempts at planting a settlement here were in 1618.

These emigrants consisted mostly of Walloons, as they were called.

Romantic stories were told in early times about these same Rapljes Rapeljes .

Magazine (September 17, 1916) and then in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

these histories of Brooklyn after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861 and contends that the articles were

See Genoways, Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860–1862 (Berkeley

Emory Holloway, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921), 2:228.; "Wallabout" is a mutation

these histories of Brooklyn after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861 and contends that the articles were

At the very earliest, schools and churches were established.

The original Dutch, it ought to be known, were among the most learned nations of Europe.

The universities of Holland were among the best.

Libraries were well stocked—and the invention of printing was really discovered there.

Magazine (September 17, 1916) and then in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

these histories of Brooklyn after the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861 and contends that the articles were

See Genoways, Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860–1862 (Berkeley

These plates were included in a lot of plates sometime ago mortgaged to Isaac Tower for money we raised

Eldridge, the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

See Thayer and Eldridge's letter from December 5, 1860.

Jewell and Kendall were collecting for Thayer and Eldridge's debtors.

was a Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

The sternest enemy of the American philosopher and of the great fog-bank school to which he, in some

These dreary pieces of laboured humour are not as popular now as they were twenty years ago, but Walt

J OHN H OLLINGSHEAD . ∗ Leaves of Grass Boston (U.S.): Thayer and Eldridge. 1860–61. J. T. S.

These are slightly misquoted lines from the 1860 , pp. 46-47.

.; These are slightly misquoted lines from the 1860 Leaves of Grass, pp. 46-47.

First O Songs for a Prelude, particularly "in its theme of the arousing of the energies of the great city—and