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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

I was so in hopes they would take the conceit out of that gassy city.

done the biggest business of blowing & mischief, on a small capital of industry or manliness, of any city

Every thing looks on the rush here in these great cities, more people, more business, more prosperity

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

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

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

, 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

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

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

Washington September 5 1863 Dear Nat I wish you were here if only to enjoy the bright & beautiful weather

ways—I mean the way often the amputated, sick, sometimes dying soldiers cling & cleave to me as it were

them & all his love—I think he told me about his brothers living in different places, one in New York City

I was very anxious he should be saved, & so were they all—he was well used by the attendants—poor boy

least in his memory—his fate was a hard one, to die so—He is one of the thousands of our unknown American

themselves up, aye even their young & precious lives, in their country's cause—Poor dear son, though you were

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

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

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

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

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

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.

In our ward the screws were put rather tight, out of a little over 3000 names they drew 1056, nearly

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 been about the city same as usual, nearly—to the Hospitals, &c, I mean—I am told that I hover

thousand, indeed thirteen or fourteen hundred—it was an old reg't, veterans, old fighters , young as they were—they

were preceded by a fine mounted band of sixteen, (about ten bugles, the rest cymbals & drums)—I tell

accompaniment —the sabres rattled on a thousand men's sides—they had pistols, their heels spurred—handsome American

Record of the Commissioned Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Privates, of the Regiments Which Were

& 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

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.

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

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.

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

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,

Washington September 15 1863 Dear Mother Your letters were very acceptable—one came just as I was putting

the very hour of death or just the same when they recover, or partially recover—I never knew what American

young men were till I have been in the hospitals— Well, mother, I have got writing on—there is nothing

on September 7, 1863, that, as he wrote, orders for his regiment to move to join Burnside's forces were

Most of its members were Irish.

Comprising over half the city's foreign-born population of 400,000, out of a total of about 814,000,

the Irish were the main source of cheap labor, virtually its peon class.

to exist" American Heritage, 10 (June 1959), 48.

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).

Joseph Howard, Jr. (1833–1908), was war correspondent for the New York Times until he was appointed city

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]).

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

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],

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

early—I suppose it is not necessary to tell you how I voted—we have gained a great victory in this city—it

Well, dear comrades, it looks so different here in all this mighty city, every thing going with a big

the markets with all sorts of provisions—tens & hundreds of thousands of people every where, (the population