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Maine) after the battle of White Oaks church, on the retreat, the march at night—the scene between 12 & 2

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

soldiers from the States, from the country, especially the West & from New England and the country parts

John Townsend Trowbridge was a novelist, poet, author of juvenile stories, and antislavery reformer.

Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My Own Story

Feinberg Collection; Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961], 2:

See Trowbridge, My Own Story, with recollections of noted persons (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 179

Grier, ed., Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:

I shall probably be kept here all this week and possibly part of next  About the Eagle that had the little

—In the early part of this month Mr Kirkwood sent me $5 to send you but I have been pretty hard up and

See Thomas Jefferson Whitman's letter to Walt Whitman from April 2, 1863.

See also Stilwell's letters to Whitman from July 5, 1864, and September 2, 1864.

direct them to me, (if you should find convenient to send them) to Washington, 456 Sixth St north, 3d story

John Townsend Trowbridge was a novelist, poet, author of juvenile stories, and antislavery reformer.

Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My Own Story

the descriptive list had arrived, and that the package contained two copies of The Drummer Boy, a Story

Feinberg Collection; Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961], 2:

See Trowbridge, My Own Story, with recollections of noted persons (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 179

the time of his last blow out we had every thing to confuse and irritate we had nanc s children here 2

Whitman with sons Edward and (within a month or two) Jesse occupied the basement (see Louisa's May 2–

Whitman, whom Louisa described as dirty and as being on the street (see her September 25 or October 2,

Louisa made upon seeing soldiers gathered on Fort Greene in Brooklyn (see her August 31 or September 2,

Grier, ed., Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:

We have caught over a hundred in the last 2 months.

this on my way Home to get my rights, if I dont get it I will not come to Washington till the latter part

Grier's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 2:541

John Townsend Trowbridge was a novelist, poet, author of juvenile stories, and antislavery reformer.

Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My Own Story

Culpeper now but I dont now how long it will last there is some talk of braking up 4 Companies of the 2

from home in A long time I gess that they have for got that they have A son in the army it is about 2

[New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:318–319).

Grier, ed., Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:

go out and get rooms and remove Mat and the babies away—but Mother said that it would kill her to part

I wish to God he was ready to put along side of Andrew  There would be but few tears shed on my part

either—any thing like a telegraphic dispatch or express box or the like should be addrest 456 Sixth st, 3d story

He looks pretty well, however, and his hand was strong and honest when I shook it at parting.

Feinberg Collection; Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961), 2:

See Trowbridge, My Own Story, with recollections of noted persons (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 179

Whitman had been home in Brooklyn from November 2 to December 1, 1863.

[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:644).

Jeff and Walt did not correspond in November 1863 because the poet was home for a visit from November 2

Katherine Molinoff, Some Notes on Whitman's Family, Monographs on Unpublished Whitman Material, no. 2

The couple had four children—Arthur, Helen, Emily, and Henry (who died in 1852, at 2 years of age).

, something" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York, Rowman and Littlefield, 1961], 2:

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

present and I hope the few lines will find you the same I have thought of you many a time since we parted

Tripp, suffered heavy losses on July 2, 1863, in defense of the Emmitsburg Road at the Battle of Gettysburg

discouragements like a noble old ship—My brother Andrew is bound for another world—he is here the greater part

Giuseppini Medori sang Lucrezia Borgia on November 2; see Whitman's account of this opera in a letter

in Baltimore until Thursday evening then took the 9 oclock train for Harrisburg arived at H. about 2

morning I arrived at my uncles at McFarland Station I stayd there two weeks, then started for another part

Democrats to vote right this time, however as the result was all right we argue that you did your part

in Brooklyn, and the couple had four children—Arthur, Helen, Emily, and Henry (who died in 1852, at 2

is a tall & handsome lady, & her actions are so graceful as she moves about the stage, playing her part

Cavalry, was admitted to the hospital on August 2, 1863, with a wound in the left leg, which gangrened

Vandemark to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1863

Grier, ed., Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:

As to the worry part, I never think of that  A man with a wife like I have got cant worry even if he

volumes of the Pacific Railroad reports (see Thomas Jefferson Whitman's letter to Walt Whitman from April 2,

See Thomas Jefferson Whitman's letter to Walt Whitman from April 2, 1863.

See also Stilwell's letters to Whitman from July 5, 1864, and September 2, 1864.

much of it i told him i would make him some more to morrow and not put any salt in it i gave him the 2

the book is very rapid—is a book that can be read by the five or ten minutes at (being full of small parts

I send George papers now & then—Mother, one of your letters contains part of my letter to the Union,

street, not far from Pennsylvania avenue, (the big street here,) & not far from the Capitol—it is in 3d story

for rooms, I went in to see a couple of furnished rooms about like our two in Wheelers houses (2d story

are not so very dear, very much the same as in Brooklyn—dear mother, Jeff wrote in his letter latter part

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America , 2

Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman [Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921], 2:

Mother, I go down every day looking for a letter from you or Jeff—I had two from Jeff latter part of

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

Though there was little excuse for delay, Whitman remained in Washington until November 2.

See also Stilwell's letters to Whitman from July 5, 1864, and September 2, 1864.

husband & I are great friends too—Well I will close—the rain is pouring, the sky leaden—it is between 2

from Mr Kirkwood for the use of the "sogers"  The enclosed $8 is contributed thus $5 by Moses Lane $2

See Thomas Jefferson Whitman's letter to Walt Whitman from April 2, 1863.

Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman [Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921], 2:

Brooklyn Daily Union of September 22, 1863 (The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, [1921], 2:

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

It has become an old story. The suffering ones cling to me, poor children, very close.

Anne Wigglesworth, & to your own sister, Margaret, that as I feel it a privilege myself to be doing a part

Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921), 2:

Some say too, the columns front and rear of the Old Capitol part, there in the centre center , are now

The ambulances are, of course, the most melancholy part of the army-wagon panorama that one sees everywhere

Then the trees and their dark and glistening verdure play their part.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

wounded three weeks ago to-day at Culpepper—hit by fragment of a shell in the leg below the knee—a large part

cases & is one of the least visited—there is not much hospital visiting here now—it has become an old story—the

few gas-burners about half turned down—It is Sunday evening—to-day I have been in the hospital, one part

serious for that" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961], 2:

See also Stilwell's letters to Whitman from July 5, 1864, and September 2, 1864.

the wounded, sick, dying soldiers here came safe to hand—it is being sacredly distributed to them—part

minister to them, to sit by them—some so wind themselves around one's heart, & will be kissed at parting

Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921), 2:

[New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:318–319).

Andrew and his wife Nancy expected her to pay their rent: "i suppose martha has told nancy i have got 2

old retort that it was me that was stingey with my bank book....i told her the other day becaus i had 2

Quite a good deal of house-building is in progress in one part of Washington and another.

But his parents home continued to hear all sorts of stories, and had all sorts of hopes and fears; thought

Before long the Eighty-seventh was disbanded; part of it, men and officers, went into the Sixteenth Virginia

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2: