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feet muffled. orders that men should tread light & only speak in whispers— Then between 12 midnight & 1
diarrhea father Ranson Northrop Webster, Monroe co N.Y. some brandy ward A bed 41 Pleasant Borley co A 1
going there and her being out of things she probably was out of some things i had given her that week 1
Well, it is now past midnight, pretty well on to 1 o'clock, & my sheet is most written out—so, my dear
I then took the 1-40 pm train I did not chang cars again until I got to Chicago Friday evening I got
the copperheads are completely played out My Regiment (the 5th Wis) cast 450 vots all Republican but 1
they told me that they had non—than I went into their store room and thear was some nice shirts thear. 1
take the plesure of fulfilling my promace a writing to you hoping those few lines will find you well 1
furlough, his folks live I think in Jamaica, he is a noble boy, he may call upon you, (I gave him here $1
Martin "1 " Henry Carlow In my yesterdays letter I said something about the acknowledgement of the moneys
W ASHINGTON , Thursday, Oct. 1, 1863.
Davis, 1 October 1863
Curtis to Walt Whitman, 1 October 1863
morning report this morning (and for the last 8 days has been the same) was I—Capt, 2 Sergts 2 Corpls, 1
little over 3000 names they drew 1056 nearly one in three, while in other wards the proportion was 1
in 6 and 1 in 7 and in the 9th ward 1 in 10.
Washington September 1 1863 Dear Mother, I have been thinking to-day & all yesterday about the draft
write about her—dear mother, good bye for present— Walt Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 1
hurl at Gettysburgh Gettysburg , Most historians consider the Battle of Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, July 1–
We keep 1 horse and two cows and two hogs we have in a nice little field of corn & we had a nice little
Her hair is getting lighter and i guess will be about the color of mine The enclosed $2 is sent $1 by
Martin and $1 by Henry Carlow. I wish you would write me a Hospital letter .
Washington August 1 1863 Both your letters have been received, Lewy —the second one came this morning
Brown, 1 August 1863
inform you that I am well and that my leg is mending verry fast I left Washington on the 2nd on the 6 1/
Kirkwood $1 " John D Martin " Chas Botsford and $3 from self.
you will like to hear it, mother, so I tell you— I am finishing this in Major Hapgood's office, about 1
Wallace to Walt Whitman, 1 July 1863
privet and as study as a Jug JC sebrig is fist lutenent B B Jones is a lutenent brother william is ordly 1
(Fred) Gray to Walt Whitman, 1 May 1863
feet. eggs pie. bread butter cheese apples coffee &c Mch 31st Crossed the Ohio on the ferry boat about 1
April 4th changed camp to the other side and about 1 1/2 miles from town, Apl 9 A scouting party was
W. will consent to give $1 per month regularly to be sent to you for Hospital purposes.
Bowen: An Unknown Whitman Letter Recommending an Army Doctor," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1, no. 2
Whitman’s brother, Thomas Jefferson Whitman, enclosed $11 from Moses Lane, $10 from Hill & Newman, and $1
going with him i told jeff he better not go as he was very tyred tired george said it would be 12 or 1
Glicksberg ("A Whitman Letter," New York Times , May 1, 1931, 26).
their heads to the street, and numbered either alphabetically, Wards A, or B, C, D and so on; or Wards 1,
I mailed a letter to you either last Friday or Saturday, containing $11. 10 from Hill & Newman and $1.
Contributed by Hill & Newman $1.
George Washington Whitman to Walt Whitman, 1 February 1863
Durkee $1. " L. M. Smith Esq $1. " Geo. H. Burgess Esq $5. " G. T.
I did not wish you to send $5, for I do not think it right—it is entirely too much—nor mother $1—I think
I N C AMP, ON THE F ALMOUTH SIDE , A RMY OF THE P OTOMAC , J ANUARY 1, 1863.
At the date of the present hasty sketch (Jan. 1, '63) the 51st is lying in camp, under its excellent
brother Walt, Mr Lane handed me your note yesterday and I enclose the within $6, $5 from myself and $1
I think of sending them by mail, if the postage is not more than $1.
1[1865 or before], war and hospital notes and memorandaloc.01552xxx.00502For Note1863-1875prose2 leaveshandwritten
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Mary writes that Fanny is married Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 1 January 1863