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Whitman, LG 1855, 14. 2.
Huntington, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, vol. 2, part 3 (Washington,
Vol. 2, part 3. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1883. Otis Historical Archives.
Vol. 2.
the paper in the 1840s and, with his Spartan Association of like-minded Democrats, eventually became part
has been part of all the editions of Leaves of Grass.
The story is not unlike the story Whitman tells in his 1859 elegy “A 162 Radical Imaginaries WordOutoftheSea
Bryan Rennie (London: Equinox, 2006), 17–22; 20. 2.
Floyd Stovall, 2 vols. (NewYork: NewYork University Press, 1964), 1:288.
(Fr 391). 2. Walt Whitman, Daybooks and Notebooks, ed.
Part of this story will be told The Good Gray Market . 75 in the next chapter, widening the frame to
WC 2:55. 2.
WC 2:421. 57.
2 (July 1868): 371.
Walt Whitman to John and Ursula Burroughs, 2 March 1875, CO 2:325. 64.