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William Stewart to G. W. Brooks, 22 August 1865

  • Date: August 22, 1865
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
Text:

Brooks, Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

William E. Babcock to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1865

  • Date: January 21, 1865
  • Creator(s): William E. Babcock
Text:

Carberry, Hoyne, Groenemyer, Loughsen, Whitbeck, and Murden he did not say in his letter where the men were

Annotations Text:

Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American

Volunteers in April, 1861, enlisted with the 51st Regiment, New York State Volunteers in September, 1861 were

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1865; 1865–1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Old matron of the city! this proud, friendly, turbulent city!

CITY OF SHIPS. CITY of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships!

City of the world!

City of wharves and stores! city of tall façades of mar- ble marble and iron!

what were God?)

J. Hubley Ashton to Clarence A. Seward, 4 August 1865

  • Date: August 4, 1865
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

pardon, under the 13th exception in the President's Proclamation, if the value of his taxable property were

James Speed to Charles A. Peabody, 8 August 1865

  • Date: August 8, 1865
  • Creator(s): James Speed | Walt Whitman
Text:

Louisiana New York City. Sir: Yours of July 4, tendering your resignation as U. S.

Your letter would have been more promptly answered, but for my absence from the city.

J. Hubley Ashton to Joseph Casey, 8 August 1865

  • Date: August 8, 1865
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

Joseph Casey, Oil City, Venango co. Penn.

James Speed to Robert Murray, 9 August 1865

  • Date: August 9, 1865
  • Creator(s): James Speed | Walt Whitman
Text:

New York City.

J. Hubley Ashton to Andrew Johnson, 31 July 1865

  • Date: July 31, 1865
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

parties except the six named by the Distric Attorney, seem to have been poor and ignorant men who were

whatever, but whose guilt consists simply in membership of an unlawful association into which they were

also, it would seem, have been in the hands of the military authorities,—and suffered, before they were

America needs her own poems

  • Date: Early 1860s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

tropes, likenesses, piano music, and smooth rhymes — nor of This manuscript probably dates to the early 1860s

the leaf (duk.00795), which contains draft lines that contributed to poems first published in the 1860

these years I sing...]" and to "Apostroph," the opening section of "Chants Democratic and Native American

Both poems first appeared in the 1860–1861 edition of Leaves of Grass. America needs her own poems

Annotations Text:

This manuscript probably dates to the early 1860s, as it appears to have been inscribed after the writing

the leaf (duk.00795), which contains draft lines that contributed to poems first published in the 1860

these years I sing...]" and to "Apostroph," the opening section of "Chants Democratic and Native American

Both poems first appeared in the 1860–1861 edition of Leaves of Grass.

(Poem) Shadows

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"The Two Vaults," a poem that is recorded in a New York notebook that probably dates to the early 1860s

A note about an editorial on "American Expansion and Settlement Inland" is written on the back of this

Annotations Text:

"The Two Vaults," a poem that is recorded in a New York notebook that probably dates to the early 1860s

Notebook (1861–1862).; Transcribed from digital images of the original.; A note about an editorial on "American

After certain disastrous campaigns

  • Date: Between 1862 and 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Emory Holloway (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921).

Annotations Text:

Emory Holloway (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921).; This is a draft of a poem unpublished in

Emory Holloway (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921).; Transcribed from digital images of the original

Others may praise what they like

  • Date: About 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

1879 or early 1880, just after Whitman's trip to the western U.S. in 1879 (The Correspondence [Iowa City

University of Iowa Press, 2004], 57), it seems more likely that the draft letter is probably from 1860

supplied—the great West especially—with copious thousands of copies" (New York Saturday Press [7 January 1860

Annotations Text:

1879 or early 1880, just after Whitman's trip to the western U.S. in 1879 (The Correspondence [Iowa City

University of Iowa Press, 2004], 57), it seems more likely that the draft letter is probably from 1860

supplied—the great West especially—with copious thousands of copies" (New York Saturday Press [7 January 1860

Silence

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates the top scrap to the 1860s and the bottom scrap to the 1850s

Annotations Text:

Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates the top scrap to the 1860s and the bottom scrap to the 1850s

A Brooklyn Soldier, and a Noble One

  • Date: 19 January 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of a Brooklyn Veteran " (March 12, 1865); and Our Veterans Mustering Out " (August 5, 1865) of this city

Brooklyn, and after a service of three months in the summer of 1861, in the 13th Regiment of this city

Grant's Overland Campaign, Grant joined with Major General George Meade to fight Lee; the results were

Frank Butler, of this city, also an officer of the 51st, who was badly wounded in the action of September

Annotations Text:

Grant's Overland Campaign, Grant joined with Major General George Meade to fight Lee; the results were

Our Veterans Mustering Out

  • Date: 5 August 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Ray, a boss builder of this city.

Also known as the First Battle of Rappahannock Station, there were a couple of hundred casualties, and

It was fought between Grant and Lee; the results were inconclusive. fighting, and loss severe.

Grant and Meade fought Lee; the results were inconclusive. loss slight. May 26.

Grant and Meade fought Lee; the results were inconclusive. loss slight. June 2.

Annotations Text:

Also known as the First Battle of Rappahannock Station, there were a couple of hundred casualties, and

It was fought between Grant and Lee; the results were inconclusive.; In the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse

Grant's Overland Campaign, Grant joined with Major General George Meade to fight Lee; the results were

Grant and Meade fought Lee; the results were inconclusive.; Whitman apparently refers here to the Battle

Grant and Meade fought Lee; the results were inconclusive.; The Battle of Bethesda Church was another

Return of a Brooklyn Veteran

  • Date: 16 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Next a hot and dusty little campaign, which resulted in capturing the City of Jackson, Miss.

It was fought with General Lee; the results of the battle were inconclusive.

Several of their officers and men killed were well-known Brooklynites.

The severed men fought bravely, but were pressed further away.

It was getting dark in the evening, and eventually they were taken prisoners.

Annotations Text:

.; 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.;

It was fought with General Lee; the results of the battle were inconclusive.; The Battle of Spotsylvania

between Union Generals Grant and Meade and Confederate General Lee; the results of this battle also were

Lee.; The first two major battles of the Siege of Petersburg (Virginia, June 9 and June 15–18, 1864) were

Washington

  • Date: 12 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The members were nervous, from long drawn duty, exhausted, some asleep, and many half asleep.

For a moment, (and no wonder) the nervous and sleeping Representatives were thrown into confusion.

But it was over almost as soon as the drowsied men were actually awake.

of armed cavalrymen eight deep, with drawn sabres, and carbines clanking at their sides, and there were

excellent sun, with atmosphere of sweetness; so clear it showed the stars, long, long before they were

Annotations Text:

Building) and the "pasteboard Monitor" (a cardboard model of the Union ironclad ship, the USS Monitor) were

Douglass, who had initially been barred by guards from entering the White House because he was African-American

The Fifty-first New-York Volunteers

  • Date: 24 January 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

P OOLEY and A TKINSON , and some eight or ten more officers, are there, or, rather, were, toward the

They were kept in a large tobacco warehouse, and were doing as well as men could do under such circumstances

F ERRERO , Edward Ferrero, a dance instructor at West Point before the war, was a famous Italian-American

After the war he continued teaching dance lessons at the ballroom of Tammany Hall in New York City. now

in the battles at the Wilderness and Petersburg in 1864. also Major-General by brevet, both of this city

Annotations Text:

.; 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.;

The Soldiers

  • Date: 6 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This city, its suburbs, the Capitol, the front of the White House, the places of amusement, the avenue

make, I should say, the marked feature in the human movement and costume appearance of our national city

His answers were short, but clear.

His parents were living, but were very old. There were four sons, and all had enlisted.

There were several other boys no older.

Annotations Text:

(American Civil War Research Database [Duxbury, Massachusetts: Alexander Street Press]).

Lee; the results of the battle were inconclusive.; According to Martin G. Murray, D.

Walt Whitman to John Townsend Trowbridge, 6 February 1865

  • Date: February 6, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Seward are willing to avoid at present the tempest of rage which would beat about their heads, if it were

known among the Radicals that Peace, Amnesty, every thing , were given up to the Rebels on the single

If perfectly eligible, it might help me in the cause of the men, if you were to prepare a paragraph for

Shillaber's paper, if he were willing to publish it, stating that I am now as a volunteer nurse among

Walt Whitman to Captain William Cook, 27 February 1865

  • Date: February 27, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Were the other officers 51st there at Danville, time you left?

Walt Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 30 January 1865

  • Date: January 30, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

lieutenant in George's regiment, wrote to Whitman on January 21, 1865, and informed him that the prisoners were

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 1 February 1865

  • Date: February 1, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

chance of the box you sent getting to George—I wrote to Jeff how I was so much surer that a box from City

Annotations Text:

Whitman apparently wrote again on February 13, and Mason replied from City Point on February 16 that

Walt Whitman to N. M. and John B. Pratt, 10 June 1865

  • Date: June 10, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We are having very hot weather here, & it is dry & dusty—The City is alive with soldiers from both the

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 17 October 1865

  • Date: October 17, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Pleasants said they were well when Ashton left for Philadelphia.

Annotations Text:

For a time Whitman lived with William and Ellen O'Connor, who, with Eldridge and later Burroughs, were

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 1 November 1865

  • Date: November 1, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Glad we were to see it, Charley & I. Have you sent one to Emerson? Do , in haste, won't you?

Annotations Text:

For a time Whitman lived with William D. and Ellen O'Connor, who, with Eldridge and later Burroughs, were

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

Walt Whitman to Byron Sutherland, 26 August 1865

  • Date: August 26, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

1868, he wrote to Sutherland: "I retain just the same friendship I formed for you the short time we were

Walt Whitman to Mrs. Irwin, 1 May 1865

  • Date: May 1, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

flighty at night—often fancied himself with his regiment—by his talk sometimes seem'd as if his feelings were

Walt Whitman to John Swinton, 3 February 1865

  • Date: February 3, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. & Lieut Samuel Pooley,25 51st New York Vol. both of whom are now, or were lately, in C. S.

Walt Whitman to a Soldier, April (?) 1865

  • Date: April (?), 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Excerpts from five of Whitman's letters to an unidentified ex-soldier were printed by Florence Hardiman

Walt Whitman to John Swinton (?), 9 June 1865

  • Date: June 9, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Harlan apparently took offense at the copy of the 1860 Leaves of Grass which Whitman was revising and

Walt Whitman to Byron Sutherland, 15 October 1865

  • Date: October 15, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

1868, he wrote to Sutherland: "I retain just the same friendship I formed for you the short time we were

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 6 January 1865

  • Date: January 6, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sharp-cut self assertion, One's-Self & also, or may be still more, to map out, to throw together for American

those days' efforts & aspirations—true, I see now, with some things in it I should not put in if I were

Annotations Text:

Probably these were the Misses Sallie and Carrie Howard listed in the 1866 Directory, or the Miss Garaphelia

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 20 January 1865

  • Date: January 20, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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.

Walt Whitman to William D. and Ellen M. O'Connor, 26 March 1865

  • Date: March 26, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My brother would be in what I would almost call fair condition, if it were not that his legs are affected—it

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 20 October 1865

  • Date: October 20, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

For a time Whitman lived with William D. and Ellen O'Connor, who, with Eldridge and later Burroughs, were

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 12 October 1865

  • Date: October 12, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

For a time Whitman lived with William D. and Ellen O'Connor, who, with Eldridge and later Burroughs, were

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

Whitman enclosed a review of his work from the London Leader of June 30, 1860, for William D.

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 25 May 1865

  • Date: May 25, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

perhaps a long while in passing, nothing but batteries—(it seemed as if all the cannon in the world were

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 26 January 1865

  • Date: January 26, 1865
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

Y., Jan 26th 1865 Dear Brother Walt, Mother received your letter to-night—we were all very glad to hear

that you arrived so nicely and were so well established—The enclosed two letters came to-day —I sent

peaches—crackers—potatoes—salt—and the clothes that he sent for—I think I will send him another next week or week after—We were

Annotations Text:

He accused the Confederates of deliberate and systematic atrocities and estimated that prisoners "were

Grant added that supplies were being distributed to prisoners by Union agents.

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1865

  • Date: February 3, 1865
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

10 or 12 years—I've no doubt the mention of his name will call to you many pleasant thoughts—those were

Annotations Text:

Richardson not only argued that the Confederates were "deliberately killing" Union men, but he also attacked

Newspapers of the day were filled with rumors of an impending meeting between Union and Confederate leaders

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 7 February 1865

  • Date: February 7, 1865
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

up the supply of good things—Do you have about the same experience in the Hospitals as you used to—were

the men glad to see you back—were any remaining that you used to visit  if so I know they were glad

hope not—tis so long since we have had any very large battles that I should suppose the Hospita[l]s were

not full What is it about the Exchange of prisoners—do you know it looks to me as if they were trying

to delay the exchange and yet talk about it as if they were going to do it and wished to do it all the

Annotations Text:

The hospitals were fairly full because, as Whitman noted, some soldiers remained with "bad old lingering

wounds" while others were moved to Washington as field hospitals were dismantled.

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 31 January 1865

  • Date: January 31, 1865
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

course he looks so to Grant—whatever may be the fact this editor of the administration paper of the City

caught it somehow connected with his business  I understand that there is a great deal of it in the city

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 4 May 1865

  • Date: May 4, 1865
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

Y., May 4th 1865 Dear Walt, We received your letter and [were] glad to get it too—We had all begun to

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 11 September 1865

  • Date: September 11, 1865
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

In September 1865 George hoped to construct an office building in New York City but lost the contract

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 4 June 1865

  • Date: June 4, 1865
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

Did Lane explain to you that they were the children of the people that sent you money last winter a year

Annotations Text:

Moses Lane commented that these contributors were the only ones "thus far that will have to deny themselves

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 16 July 1865

  • Date: July 16, 1865
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

Harlan apparently took offense at the copy of the 1860 Leaves of Grass which Whitman was revising and

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 29 September 1865

  • Date: September 29, 1865
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

8 or ten years —he certainly has the prospect of it—there is an immense amount of building in the city

Louis—I think it more than likely that he will build the water works of that city—if so it will be as

Annotations Text:

See Jeff's letter to Walt from April 16, 1860.

Nicholas D. Palmer to Walt Whitman, 24 June 1865

  • Date: June 24, 1865
  • Creator(s): Nicholas D. Palmer
Text:

Leaving hard work out of the Books, and I have thought that were bigger fools than me making a living

What about Such houses as we were talking about and if it Should be made agreeable for me to take up

Annotations Text:

I am completely in the dark as to 'what such houses as we were talking about,' are—upon the whole not

Nelson Jabo to Adeline Jabo, 21 January 1865

  • Date: January 21, 1865
  • Creator(s): Nelson Jabo
Text:

transferred to a USA Post Hospital before eventually becoming a "charity patient" at Providence Hospital, a city

Annotations Text:

transferred to a USA Post Hospital before eventually becoming a "charity patient" at Providence Hospital, a city

Kate Richardson to Walt Whitman, 18 June 1865

  • Date: June 18, 1865
  • Creator(s): Kate Richardson | Nate Richardson
Text:

She told me you were often in the Hospital, and so today, after writing to her, I couldn't help keeping

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