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Attorney Gen'ls Office, August 1, 1865. Mrs. H. J. Cowden, Westfield, Chautauqua, N. Y.
Cowden, 1 August 1865
fixing A bedroom for George and tried to get mrs Howard to whitewash but i could not i offered her 1
Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 1 May 1865
1 COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols?
Attorney General's Office, September 1, 1865. Dr. D. W. Yandell, Louisville, Kentucky.
Yandell, 1 September 1865
Archive I: Whitman Manuscripts at the Library of Congress, ed Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:
Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:156.
year may have been 1863 when Lee and Jackson pushed northward until Lee was halted at Gettysburg, July 1–
the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
The march referred to took place on December 18" (1:474).
works (Camden III: 289 Whitman wrote this manuscript sometime after the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1–
Brooklyn Soldier, and a Noble One': A Brooklyn Daily Union Article by Whitman, Walt Whitman Review 20, no. 1
September 1.
—Battle of Chantilly; The Battle of Chantilly (also the Battle of Ox Hill; Virginia, September 1, 1862
next was at Chantilly, The Battle of Chantilly (also called the Battle of Ox Hill; Virginia, September 1,
Grant Carroll of Lynn, Massachusetts died at Andersonville on August 1, 1864, and Obed J.
Dixon, ed., National Intelligencer Newspaper Abstracts: July 1, 1863–December 31, 1865 (Westminster,
should be truly glad to see you—perhaps best to call at Att'y Gen's office, Treasury Building—say from 1/
Washington February 1 1865 Dear Mother, I sent Jeff a letter three or four days ago, which I suppose
I send $1 for Nancy, the other for you—I may not write again till about the 12th, or perhaps 10th— Tell
Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 1 February 1865
O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 1 November 1865
Irwin, 1 May 1865
Written in ink on letterhead from the Attorney General's Office, where Whitman was first employed on July 1,
Written in ink on letterhead from the Attorney General's Office, where Whitman was first employed on July 1,