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In this battle we took about 100 prisoners and some 35 peices of canon.
sent home to New York and died the next day after arriving there Among the wounded was Lieut Col Potter
Col Potters orders were to hold the Ford while we had a man left. and well we knew he would obey the
During the day several prisoners were brought in, by our Cavelry, who reported the enemy moveing away
We took 2 or 300 prisoners and found that the rebs had left (in their hury to get away) quite a number
on the other" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book
Proofs.xxx.00496Passage to Indiaabout 1871poetryprintedhandwritten; Page proofs of Walt Whitman's book
Cyclopædias, commercial dictionaries, directories, and such books are plentiful enough, and in the slang
must have authors of such works keen enough to take to street tumbling to stimulate the sale of their books
public excitement had upon his "editions," but we have no doubt that many people never bought his book
The inventory of nature is the only thing solid in a book, one-half of which is quite as coarse as Rabelais
rain and on the ground but have not felt a bit the worse for it so I think I can go through like a book
.— I think you had best correspond with Wentworth & he will answer by hand of our old book keeper Mr.
evidence to suggest that the overwhelming majority of the material in 'Brooklyniana' was recycled from a book
evidence to suggest that the overwhelming majority of the material in 'Brooklyniana' was recycled from a book
evidence to suggest that the overwhelming majority of the material in 'Brooklyniana' was recycled from a book
evidence to suggest that the overwhelming majority of the material in 'Brooklyniana' was recycled from a book
evidence to suggest that the overwhelming majority of the material in 'Brooklyniana' was recycled from a book
evidence to suggest that the overwhelming majority of the material in 'Brooklyniana' was recycled from a book