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I am glad to Know that you are once more in the hotbed City of Washington So that you can go often and

I had a very pleasant passage and enjoyed the ride very much but yet I found that my wounds were somewhat

transferred to the Invalid Corps in July and sent to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where invalid soldiers were

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

He was very grateful for your interest, and his last words to me were—"tell him to write to me."

There seems a sort of hopelessness about this, and being unused to hospitals my feelings were far from

While he was with the Boston Post, he invented the American version of Mrs.

worst of my sickness she hardly left my room how often have I thought what would become of me 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

June 16, 1863 (less than eight weeks after his wife) at 609 Water Street, lower east side of New York City

His young daughter (11) and son (9) were left orphaned (Price and Budell, 44–45).

June 16, 1863 (less than eight weeks after his wife) at 609 Water Street, lower east side of New York City

His young daughter (11) and son (9) were left orphaned (Price and Budell, 44–45).

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!

I have not lately made any requests of my friends for more thinking you perhaps were well supplied for

I do not know that I told you that both of my parents were dead but it is true and now Walt you will

Were it not for the great love for my wife I would stop until you returned but I still think I shall

only taught me how much I should miss you and also what a vacancy there would be in my affections were

Among the wounded were the Col and the Maj. of the 6th Wisconsin Regt. and quite a number of privates

a great many of them were very badly wounded, more so than any lot I have seen come in, eight of them

Dear friend Walt Not knowing what they were agoing to do with me until thursday last is my excuse for

But you were asked for, and we all wished you present. Of course Mr. Eldridge & Mrs.

I know more about it than when you were here, and I assure you that you will be rendering a service not

Don't forget the three things you were to bring for my especial benefit.

entry for April 18, 1864, the Count referred to Whitman as among "the most original and genuine American

LeRoy Fischer, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 36 (1949–1950): 415–434, and the Dictionary of American

Cooper on March 27, 1860; the Mrs.

During the 1860s, Price and her family, especially her daughter, Helen, were friends with Whitman and

In 1860 the Price family began to save Walt's letters.

Dear Walt, we long for you, William sighs for you, & I feel as if a large part of myself were out of

the city,—I shall give you a good big kiss when you come, so depend upon it.

Cooper on March 27, 1860; the Mrs.

O'Connor, who, with Eldridge and later Burroughs, were to be his close associates during the early Washington

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer and 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.

I agree with you Walt, that in time he must see right through those people, & if it were not for the

I quite envy you the Opera, I wish I were there with you for a week to go around.

Last Sunday we were out walking & met the Count, the first time since you left.

He immediately asked for you, & I told him where you were—he asked if you were coming back &c. & when

I wish that you were back here in your old room for my sake, for I miss you & shall.

Cooper on March 27, 1860; the Mrs.

During the 1860s, Price and her family, especially her daughter, Helen, were friends with Whitman and

In 1860 the Price family began to save Walt's letters.

entry for April 18, 1864, the Count referred to Whitman as among "the most original and genuine American

LeRoy Fischer, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 36 (1949–1950): 415–434, and the Dictionary of American

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

Had a new U.S. flag and two guidons presented to us by the City of New York through Col Sheppard for

as the inscription on the staff said "valor on the field," it was given in place of our old City flag

Received by Gels Dix & Smith March 5th Played a match game of Ball with Hawkin Zouaves in which they were

the barracks " 18th Grand ball given in honor of the Battle of Newbern, NC, on board of steamboat City

of Hudson the officers of the Brigade Mch 24 Played return match with the Hawkins, we were beat again

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

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

We were paid this afternoon up to the 1st of July and tomorrow I shall send you by Express, at least

command is in Virginia so I suppose Andrew did not go to Newbern,  We had pretty hard fare while we were

York, and its almost enough to make a fellow ashamed of being a Yorker,  the first accounts we saw were

could hardly believe, that a thing of that kind would be alowed allowed to get such headway in the City

Wood Gov Seymour and a few more of the wire pullers and strung them up to one of the trees in the city

During the period of July 13–15, 1863, the city was disrupted by riots over the application of the 1863

The disturbance began in the Ninth Ward and spread quickly to other parts of the city.

They envisioned that while they were compelled to fight to free Negroes from slavery, that same group

The city's police force was unable to quell the riots, and order was restored to the city only when Union

Fernando Wood, mayor of New York at this time, and his brother Benjamin Wood, both Tammany leaders, 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, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company

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

Our whole corps were encamped around here, before the surrender of Vicksburg, and we had dug miles of

enemy did not pretend to make a stand, untill they got behind their entrenchments at Jackson,  this City

river above the town and ran along the outskirts untill they struck the river again just below the city

The enemy were supposed to be from 25 to 30,000 strong and on the afternoon of July Tenth we drove their

up to the front one day, were moved back a short distance, the next, and held in reserve, but had to

force—in what Walt Whitman would later describe as a "tough little campaign" ("Fifty-First New York City

Veterans," The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, edited by Emory Holloway, [Garden City,

Hence, Johnston, near Jackson, and Pemberton, defending Vicksburg, were divided; and Johnston could not

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

our tents, on the afternoon of our arrival, and I was promising myself a good nights sleep (as we were

all pretty tired after our march, and the work of pitching camp) but about 9 O clock at night we were

said he was carrying dipatches, to somebody, who was stationed somewhere, and that the dispatches were

from General Carter, and that the rebs had crossed the Cumberland River, and were in strong force, at

a place called Liberty about 10 miles from here, and were comeing on this way.

30th with the $10 came all right, and I am sory I put you to the trouble of going to the bank, as we were

I last wrote you, from Covington where we were haveing first rate easy times and fine liveing.

We have been expecting orders to march every day, and this morning we were ordered to be ready to move

at any moment, with 3 days rations in Haversacks, but a few minutes ago the orders to be ready, were

not likely to meet with much resistance at Knoxville)  It seemed to be the general opinion that we were

Knoxville in order to draw General Longstreet's army farther away from General Bragg's forces, which were

By September 9, 1863, he had occupied that city and Bragg's forces had removed to Chickamauga.

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

Walt wrote me that Matty and all the rest of you were doing everything in the world that could be done

for Andrew and it is some consolation to know, that he died surrounded by friends and relatives, who were

There were ten carriages in the funeral train (Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, December 4,

After staying at Lowell a couple of days we were ordered to pack up and move again, so we started back

"revenue cutters," or coastal vessels, be dispatched to New York City in order to save them from falling

The telegram further stated: "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot

The "Dutchman of the 11th Corps" is a reference to the fact that the Eleventh Army was heavily populated

We were paid on saturday last, and on sunday the Col. told me the men wanted me, to bring their money

I like Ky first rate and am very glad we were brought here, as the liveing is good, and there is none

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

and sent to different parts of the State, and as our regt. was pretty well used up at that time, we were

rather a slick thing, old Burny did, up there  wasent it,  he fooled the rebs that time nicely)  they were

Only 6,000 soldiers in the Ninth Army were fit for duty, however, and the Fifty-First Regiment of New

Twenty-five hundred prisoners were taken.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

Anne and Mary Wigglesworth were friends of Hannah Stevenson's and patrons of various benevolent organizations

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

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

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

His friends say that he cured one or two young soldiers who were dying of homesickness, by his sympathy

John and Margaret Stilwell were the parents of James, John, and Julia Stilwell.

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

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

explore new possibilities of male-male affection" (see chapter four, "Intimate Script and the New American

Bible: 'Calamus' and the Making of the 1860 Leaves of Grass" from Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction

General William Buel Franklin (1823–1903) was a Union Army general in the American Civil War who saw

Though Trowbridge became familiar with Whitman's poetry in 1855, he did not meet Whitman until 1860 when

Coleman, "Trowbridge and O'Connor," American Literature, 23 [1951–52], 327).

Though Trowbridge became familiar with Whitman's poetry in 1855, he did not meet Whitman until 1860 when

Coleman, "Trowbridge and O'Connor," American Literature, 23 [1951–52], 327).

While he was with the Boston Post, he invented the American version of Mrs.

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.

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