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in his essay Slang in America, which was first published in the November 1885 issue of The North American

of an article written in response to an unidentified author who had apparently found fault with American

Though parts of Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers were partially reprinted in the New York Weekly Graphic

as a draft of the Preface to the 1855 Leaves of Grass, it appears to have been written in the mid-1860s

This manuscript was likely written in the mid-1860s and was never published. [While the schools]

Revised versions of these lines were published in 'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper), the fourth

The articles were later gathered and republished as Memoranda During the War in 1875. Bed 37

The scenes did not appear in these locations, but were used, still in Memoranda, in the section titled

The scenes were also included within National Uprising and Volunteering published in Specimen Days &

Some of these notes were used in A Case from Second Bull Run, a short piece about the death of John Mahay

Other portions of this diary contributed directly to Memoranda During the War and others were first published

If I belonged to one I am sure that it would look to me just as if they were bound to kill every man

this immense risk and sacrifice of life is doing any good at all, it looks very much to me as if we were

"Tumble turds" is an Americanism for the common dung beetle.

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

He says that he saw that your feelings and sympathies were excited by the things that you saw and says

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

Omnibus drivers in New York City and Brooklyn.

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.;

of you at home, knew anything about it, and it makes me feel quite bad to think how worried you all were

life, as the scratch I got scared me a great deal worse than it hurt,  It was a mighty warm place we were

writings are in certain points open to criticism, they yet show extraordinary power, & are more deeply American

writings are in certain points open to criticism, they show extraordinary power, & are more deeply American

which was received by me just on leaving home to go to Canada, & thence to some of your West N.Y. cities

If you wish to live in that least attractive (to me) of cities, I must think you can easily do so.

Once we had orders to be ready to move the next morning but before morning came, the orders were countermanded

Wide Open; or, Scenes in Another World (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869); 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

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

however, I must abruptly say to my friends, where interested, that I find the best expression of American

Army (I noticed it first in camp, and the same here among the wounded) is very young —and far more American

present text and that part of the first sentence of the following paragraph preceding "expression of American

Burnside intended to make a second attempt to capture the city of Fredericksburg.

Boston publishing house of Thayer and Eldridge had published the third edition of Leaves of Grass (1860

According to the Brooklyn city directory for 1863–64, Eugene R.

Newman, of the above firm was in the office and upon finding out what we were doing promised to give

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

Hill, James Hill, and Warren Hill were engineers; Simon Hill, Samuel Hill, and Thomas Newman were contractors

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.

, and Sis, are not well, but as Jeff says in his last letter that you are all much better than you were

We often wish that you and George could pop in on us just as we were about to sit down to dinner, particularly

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

With his help Jeff and Walt Whitman were later able to get provisions to George when he was a prisoner

dear dear Brother George tell him how fondly we looked for his coming home and assure him that we were

Hill, James Hill, and Warren Hill were engineers; Simon Hill, Samuel Hill, and Thomas Newman were contractors

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

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

to approve the Army's crossing the Rappahannock River in a second attempt to take possession of the city

, 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

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

a time, from each Regt to go home for 10 days, but after the first two, from our Regt. got off, we were

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.

See Jeff's letter from April 3, 1860.

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

At one time there were at Camden two additional pages which presumably belonged to this letter; unfortunately

deserters—there is among the Old Capitol prisoners a little boy of seven years old—he and his father were

The Washington National Republican of this date listed d'Almeida among refugees who were committed to

entertained by James Fields, and had met Longfellow, Emerson, and Agassiz: "I carry with me a little American

In the Brooklyn Directory of 1859–1860, Ellison was listed as clerk.

Hill, James Hill, and Warren Hill were engineers; Simon Hill, Samuel Hill, and Thomas Newman were contractors

Of course we were all wonderfully glad to see him. I think he looks well.

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

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

for and those who were against Walt Whitman.

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.

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

If it were not that some of the soldiers really depend on me to come, and the doctors tell me it is really

The Washington National Republican of this date listed d'Almeida among refugees who were committed to

entertained by James Fields, and had met Longfellow, Emerson, and Agassiz: "I carry with me a little American

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.

James "Jimmy" and George "Georgy" were Nancy and Andrew's sons, and Nancy was pregnant with Andrew, Jr

Hollis Robbins, "Fugitive Mail: The Deliverance of Henry 'Box' Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics," American

According to the Brooklyn City Directory (1863), Gabriel Harrison was a photographer at 73 Fulton Avenue

Because the letter dates to May 1863, the nickname "Sis" refers to Manahatta Whitman (1860–1886), the

These Hospitals, so different from all others—these thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American

For here I see, not at intervals, but quite always, how certain, man, our American man—how he holds himself

My first impressions, architectural, &c. were not favorable; but upon the whole, the city, the spaces

Sometimes when I think of my poor little Clothilde and you I feel as if I were not as happy now as then

The bundle of shirts &c that you sent to him were first rate and although we had hard work to make him

They were all that I had and I had wore them up to the time that you went away.

This is probably the engraving that served as the frontispiece for the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

See Jeff's letter to Walt dated April 3, 1860.

The operas of Giuseppi Verdi (1813–1901) were immensely popular.

Trovatore, Donizetti's La Favorita, and the singers Amodio, Francesco Mazzoleni, and Josephine Medori—were

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

General John Ellis Wool (1784–1869) was the oldest Union general of the American Civil War and was in

Among other assignments, he led military operations in New York City during and after the draft riots

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.

I have an idea that the 51st were left behind, although it is hard to tell about it.

For Andrew's illness, see Jeff's letter to Walt dated April 3, 1860.

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

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

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

Schroth, "The Eagle and Brooklyn," in Brooklyn USA: The Fourth Largest City in America, ed.