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receive your letter [This letter is currently lost] yesterday and was glad to heer from yo and yo were

i am at home now i got home after noon my famly is well i left washington wensday we got to Jursey city

expect evry day to start for elickazandry [Alexandria] to the convalesent camp if i could get to the city

The Hospitals here were in a destitute condition, compared with those of the North.

According to Whitman's jottings in "New York City Veterans" (Glicksberg, 67), he discovered John Lowery

I am better pleased with the city than when I last wrote.

I recieved a letter from Memphis some time since stating that they were on boats bound for Vicksburg

Can you bring any influence to bear on this matter in the City of Washington.

co NY co F 2nd US Cavalry Glen's Falls Warren co NY September 9 1863— The contents of this notebook were

microfilm images at the Library of Congress's website "Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Notebooks 1850s–1860s

," part of the "American Memory" project. scene in the woods on

The contents of this notebook were written during Whitman's hospital visits to wounded soldiers.

microfilm images at the Library of Congress's website "Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Notebooks 1850s–1860s

," part of the "American Memory" project.

Sarah Hudson Rock City Falls, Saratoga co New York Member of co K 51st New York in Carver Hospital—lost

The rest of the contents were probably written either between or around those dates.

The rest of the contents were probably written either between or around those dates.; Transcribed from

of benevolence and generosity which marks Brooklyn, I have sometimes thought, more than any other city

A military hospital here in Washington is a little city by itself, and contains a larger population than

I say one of the government hospitals here is a little city in itself, and there are some fifty of these

Most hospitals in Washington, D.C. were makeshift, often converted from abandoned army barracks.

H., I think he deserves honorable mention in this letter to the people of our city.

.]; Most hospitals in Washington, D.C. were makeshift, often converted from abandoned army barracks.

Some, however, were built specifically for the purpose of tending to the sick and wounded, as the number

According to the Brooklyn city directory for 1863–4, Eugene R. Durkee was a machinist and Lorick M.

Rae, a notary and copyist who lived in Brooklyn but kept offices at 13 Wall Street, New York City.

Edward Ferrero, a dance instructor at West Point before the war, was a famous Italian-American leader

After the war he continued teaching dance lessons at the ballroom of Tammany Hall in New York City.

Even at the very outset our Brooklyn boys gave the best account of themselves, and were the first ashore

On the 8th, also, the battle of Roanoke continuing, they were among the first in the charge, and the

These were his last words. His death was instantaneous. A PARTING REMARK.

.; Edward Ferrero, a dance instructor at West Point before the war, was a famous Italian-American leader

After the war he continued teaching dance lessons at the ballroom of Tammany Hall in New York City.;

After three days of fighting, Union forces retreated to Chattanooga, where they were beseiged for several

There were several skirmishes around Charleston throughout 1863, including two major battles in April

Both of these battles were Confederate victories.

THE ARMY YOUNG AND AMERICAN. I must give one short paragraph to that heading.

McReady I know to be as good a man as the war has received out of Brooklyn city.

first identified Whitman as the author in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

After three days of fighting, Union forces retreated to Chattanooga, where they were beseiged for several

weeks.; There were several skirmishes around Charleston throughout 1863, including two major battles

Both of these battles were Confederate victories.; George Gordon Meade, commander of the Army of the

They were placed in three very large apartments. I went there several times.

Between these cases were lateral openings, perhaps eight feet wide, and quite deep, and in these were

Many of them were very bad cases, wounds and amputations.

Then there was a gallery running above the hall, in which there were beds also.

The army is very young—and so much more American than I supposed.

Such a course would make it manifest that they were not seeking to evade any responsibility (of which

Some are in the spot, soil, air and the magnificent amplitude of the laying out of the City.

The city that launches the direct laws, the imperial laws of American Union and Democracy, to be henceforth

The city of wounded and sick, city of hospitals, full of the sweetest, bravest children of time or lands

Washington may be described as the city of army wagons also.

A SUNSET VIEW OF THE CITY.

first identified Whitman as the author in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

sculpted by Luigi Persico, the sculpture depicts the female figures of America, Justice, and Hope; they were

House during the hot season, but has quarters at a healthy location, some three miles north of the city

his wife, toward the latter part of the afternoon, out in barouche, on a pleasure ride through the city

They passed me once very close, and I saw the President in the face fully, as they were moving slow,

Capitol front is finished, with the splendid entrance to the Senate and Representative wings, the city

The City Railroad Company loses some horses every day.

Brignoli" because of his difficult first name, eventually became "Dear Old Brig" to American audiences

libretto in the opera Clari, which debuted in London in 1823, the song quickly became familiar to many Americans

Raymond, | Editor New York Times | New York | City. It is postmarked: Washington | Feb | 2(?)

greatest interchange of magnetism human relations are capable of—I have told you how young & how American

Scenes in Another World (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1858; rev. ed. 1870); see National Cyclopaedia of American

hardly be in human nature for men to show more valor, or generals to manifest less judgment, than were

Whitman hoped to land a job in one of those departments, since some government positions were traditionally

lieutenants out—I suppose you know that LeGendre is now Col. of the 51st—it's a pity if we havn't Americans

especially in the hospitals, convinces me that there is no other stock, for emergencies, but native American—no

the west, and far north—and they take to a man that has not the bleached shiny & shaved cut of the cities

of Mannahatta's verbal ability: "Yesterday one of the Hearkness children was in our rooms and they were

Nicholson, 1860]).

would like to have the pleasure of Miss Mannahatta Whitman's company, the first fine forenoon, if it were

In diary entries in 1867 and 1870, Whitman noted Fritsch's address at the American Papier Maché Company

Whitman printed an account of this engagement in the New York Daily Graphic in 1874; see American Literature

Mullan's explorations were described in the U.S.

, green, spotted, lined, or of our old chocolate color—all these marbles used as freely as if they were

chandeliers and mantels, and clocks in every room—and indeed by far the richest and gayest, and most un-American

The Brooklyn Directory of 1865–66 listed Drake as an inspector in City Hall.

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

Bruce Catton (Glory Road: The Bloody Route from Fredericksburg to Gettysburg [Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday

On the day Whitman wrote this letter, Jeff reported that the three were recovering, and that "I think

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

Well, Mat, I will suspend my letter for the present, and go out through the city—I have a couple of poor

There were about 100 in one long room, just a long shed neatly whitewashed inside.

Then there were many, many others. I mention the one, as a specimen.

My Brooklyn boys were John Lowery, shot at Fredericksburgh, and lost his left forearm, and Amos H.

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

the most important, of the adulators who divided people arbitrarily into two categories: those who were

for and those who were against Walt Whitman.

According to Whitman's jottings in "New York City Veterans," Whitman discovered John Lowery (here spelled

every thing was so quiet, I supposed all might go on smoothly—but it seems the passions of the people were

call it,) & I hear nothing in all directions but threats of ordering up the gunboats, cannonading the city

See also Lawrence Lader, "New York's Bloodiest Week," in American Heritage, 10 (June 1959).

extras)—So I go round—Some of my boys die, some get well— O what a sweet unwonted love (those good American

My brave young American soldiers—now for so many months I have gone around among them, where they lie

James Redpath (1833–1891) was the author of The Life of John Brown (1860), a correspondent for the New

York Tribune during the war, the originator of the "Lyceum" lectures, and editor of the North American

He met Whitman in Boston in 1860 (The Library of Congress #90), and remained an enthusiastic admirer;

He concluded his first letter to Whitman on June 25, 1860: "I love you, Walt!

after the outset of our party, he would grow still & cloudy & up & unaccountably depart—but these were

I suppose you were at Charles Chauncey's funeral—tell me about it, & all particulars about his death.

When Horace Traubel finished reading this letter aloud, "Walt's eyes were full of tears.

remember that these government hospitals are not filled as with human débris like the old established city

hospitals, New York, &c., but mostly [with] these good-born American young men, appealing to me most

I make no bones of petting them just as if they were—have long given up formalities & reserves in my

to do any thing of the sort, but shall speak of him every time, & send him my love, just as if he were

Hugo, I suppose you were at Charles Chauncey's funeral—tell me all you hear about the particulars of

Relations between the two families were sometimes strained; see Whitman's letter from March 22, 1864.

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

need now to go to California, & they will finish the job complete— O mother, how welcome the shirts were—I

such a price—& so my old ones had got to be, when they come back from the wash I had to laugh, they were

she bears down pretty hard I guess when she irons them, & they showed something like the poor old city

told you two or three weeks ago, that is that I had to discard my old clothes, somewhat because they were

too thick & more still because they were worse gone in than any I ever yet wore I think in my life,

such things are awful—not a soul here he knew or cared about, except me—yet the surgeons & nurses were

to take off the leg—he was under chloroform—they tried their best to bring him to—three long hours were

McReady I know to be as good a man as the war has received out of Brooklyn City" (Emory Holloway, ed.

, The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman [Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921],

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday

See Whitman's letter from April 1, 1860 . The son, William A.

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

Thomas Cotrel or Cottrell (1808–1887) occupied various positions in the Brooklyn city government, including

It would seem as though Whitman were anticipating Jeff's letter of May 9, 1863: "Of course we all feel

happened for our dear times, when we first got acquainted, (we recked not of them as they passed,) were

I am writing this in Major Hapgood's office, fifth story, by a window that overlooks all down the city

October 4; reprinted in Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

Relations between the two families were sometimes strained; see Whitman's letter from March 22, 1864.

the affections, soothe them, brace them up, kiss them, discard all ceremony, & fight for them, as it were

The days in the hospitals were too serious for that" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New

exact thing at the exact moment, goes a great ways, to make gifts comfort & truly nourish these American

Stevenson, Anne and Mary Wigglesworth were patrons of various benevolent organizations in Boston.

years of age—lads of 15 or 16 more frequent than you have any idea—seven-eighths of the Army are Americans

must understand like the diseased half-foreign collections under that name common at all times in cities—in

The brothers were descendants of a distinguished Massachusetts family.

man & his wife have written me, & asked me my address in Brooklyn, he said he had children in N Y city

(I guess we, I & the wounded &c, were made for each other.)

John Brown (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860), a correspondent for the New York Tribune during the war

, the originator of the "Lyceum" lectures, and editor of the North American Review in 1886.

He met Whitman in Boston in 1860 (Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman, The Library of Congress

He concluded his first letter to Whitman on June 25, 1860: "I love you, Walt!

to see a young man whom I love very much, who has fallen into deepest affliction, & is now in your city

deal for many weeks—he then went home to Barre—became worse—has now been sent from his home to your city—is

many pale as ashes, & all bloody—I distributed all my stores, gave partly to the nurses I knew that were

Our men engaged were Kilpatrick's cavalry.

They were in the rear as part of Meade's retreat—& the reb cavalry cut in between & cut them off & [attacked

any time I will give you a letter to him—I shouldn't wonder if the big men, with Fremont at head, were

front doors, with four locks & bolts on one, & three on the other—& a big bull-dog in the back yard—we were

" presumably Lincoln's first campaign song, and served as correspondent of the New York World from 1860

He published many volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to

They planned to build a railroad from Kansas City to the West.

Stedman was engaged by Hallett to edit The American Circular, which propagandized for the new railroad

forget their kindness & real friendship & it appears as though they would continue just the same, if it were

years until Lincoln came in—They have bought another house, smaller, to live in, & are going to move (were

Mother, I think something of commencing a series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities

Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates during the early Washington years.

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

the most important, of the adulators who divided people arbitrarily into two categories: those who were

for and those who were against Walt Whitman.

sight must have been presented by the field of action—I think the killed & wounded there on both sides were

as many as eighteen or twenty thousand—in one place, four or five acres, there were a thousand dead,

I have got in the way after going lightly as it were all through the wards of a hospital, & trying to

on acc't of the sun—yesterday & to-day however have been quite cool, east wind—Mother, the shirts were

Times, October 29, 1864 (Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman [Garden City

Relations between the two families were sometimes strained; see Whitman's letter from March 22, 1864.

Rumors were widespread that Lee was about to attack Washington, for the War Department on June 23, 1863

Whitman described the career of Hicks (1748–1830), the famous American Quaker, in November Boughs (Richard

The city surrendered formally on July 4, 1863.

& I think this quite important, for such the main body of East Tennesseans are, & are far truer Americans

(I mean the American ones to a man) all feel about the copperheads, they never speak of them without

goes, & as the darkey said there at Charleston when the boat run on a flat & the reb sharpshooters were

Weather—The President," "Signs of Next Session," "The Wounded in the Hospitals," "The Army Young and American

It is reprinted in Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

They have their own ways (not outside eclat, but in manly American hearts, however rude, however undemonstrative