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'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

  • Date: 7 March 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I step softly over and find by his card that he is named William Cone, of the First Maine Cavalry, and

Missouri, Iowa, and all the Western States, temporarily camped here in Sherman's Union Major General William

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper.)

  • Date: 21 February 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There are two or three large stoves, and the prevailing white of the walls is relieved by some ornaments

O'Connor, the wife of William Douglas O'Connor.

Through the rich August verdure of the trees see that white group of buildings off yonder in the outskirts

Harewood Hospital, a model hospital like Judiciary Square and Lincoln, was built on the estate of William

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William "Filibuster" Walker was a doctor, lawyer, and newspaper editor whose nickname stemmed from his

Dr. Scudder's Lecture

  • Date: 7 May 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

coffee plants with their little flowers are seen on the plain, while the Rhododendron and the wild white

Our Veterans Mustering Out

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

White Sulphur Springs.

White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along the

The resort of White Sulphur Springs was turned into a hospital in 1862 and cared for both Union and Confederate

A major battle at White Sulphur Springs took place the following summer, but George Whitman was not involved

Hill, Major General Henry Heth, and Major General William Mahone. loss slight. September 30.

Annotations Text:

.; White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along

The resort of White Sulphur Springs was turned into a hospital in 1862 and cared for both Union and Confederate

A major battle at White Sulphur Springs took place the following summer, but George Whitman was not involved

Return of a Brooklyn Veteran

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

Shepard, Colonel Shepherd, the son-in-law of William H.

Washington

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

The "President's closing Levee" was the open inaugural reception at the White House, held the evening

5000 guests, including Frederick Douglass, who had initially been barred by guards from entering the White

Never before was such a compact jam in front of the White House, all the grounds filled, and away out

As the President came out on the capitol portico, a curious little white cloud, the only one in that

Annotations Text:

.; The "President's closing Levee" was the open inaugural reception at the White House, held the evening

5000 guests, including Frederick Douglass, who had initially been barred by guards from entering the White

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

What Stops the General Exchange of Prisoners of War?

  • Date: 27 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

latter have been and are ready to exchange man for man as far as prisoners go, (certainly all the whites

The Prisoners

  • Date: 27 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

latter have been and are ready to exchange man for man as far as prisoners go, (certainly all the whites

Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers

  • Date: 11 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

presented here, in the generally fine, soft, peculiar air and light,) and has his eyes attracted by these white

Fifty-first New-York City Veterans

  • Date: 29 October 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

often without food to eat or water to drink, all those parts of Stafford, Culpepper Culpeper , Prince William

On the fall of that stronghold they were pushed off under S HERMAN Union Major-General William Tecumseh

Letter from Washington

  • Date: 4 October 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I shall always identify Washington with that huge and delicate towering bulge of pure white, where it

Then other varieties; there will be a procession of wagons, bright-painted and white-topped, marked "

Washington being full of great white architecture, takes through the Summer a prevailing color-effect

of white and green.

White canvas coverings arch them over, and each wagon has its six-mule team.

From Washington

  • Date: 22 September 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From late June through the middle of October 1863, forces under Union General William S.

trees, through all the streets and in the well-kept public grounds, and through this green, the milky white

Washington in the Hot Season

  • Date: 16 August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

L INCOLN never reposes at the White House during the hot season, but has quarters at a healthy location

there, (I think the light is extra-powerful here,) besides a large effect of green, varied with the white

We have put the draft through, have conscribed a goodly lot of whites, blacks and Secessionists; and

some badly wounded—and, perhaps, never to rise thence,) the cots themselves, with their drapery of white

Our Brooklyn Boys in the War

  • Date: 05 January 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Matthew Partridge, William Gill, DEATHS OF BROOKLYN MEN.

Brooklyniana, No. 39

  • Date: 1 November 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See William Rounseville Alger, The Life of Edwin Forrest (New York: Lippincott, 1877), 2:649.

We hove in sight of the steeples and white paint of home, and soon after, the spirits we had served deserted

Brooklyniana, No. 38

  • Date: 25 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

colors, and stones of every conceivable shape, hue, and destiny, with shells, large boulders of a pure white

Brooklyniana, No. 37

  • Date: 11 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He was an independent, God-worshipping man, and exercised great influence for good over both whites and

An Old Landmark Gone

  • Date: 9 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

In time, it too gave place, and was also torn down, to make room for the present white marble church

William Hartshorne, William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Walt Whitman.

Brooklyniana, No. 35.—Continued.

  • Date: 6 September 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Looms, too, were in common use, and piles of home-spun cloth and snow-white linen attested the industry

Brooklyniana, No. 35

  • Date: 30 August 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In 1636, at the request of Charles I, the Plymouth Company transferred to William Alexander, Earl of

The snow-white floor was sprinkled with fine sand, which was curiously stroked with a broom into fantastic

first carpet said to have been introduced into the colony was found in the house of the pirate, Kidd, William

City Photographs—No. VII

  • Date: 17 May 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Here is plenty of room, and the roof of canvas, red, white and blue, makes it all cool and nice for summer

City Photographs—No. VI

  • Date: 3 May 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

small size, opened in 1835. down in the square—on account of the real genius of the acting in it of William

William Sefton and John Sefton were brothers.

William was the first stage manager of the Franklin Theatre.

Brooklyniana, No.18

  • Date: 19 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

elected Mayor of the city, and he held a number of other offices before his death in 1854. with his white

Brooklyniana, No. 17.

  • Date: 5 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was rumored that he converted President William Henry Harrison. His son John N.

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Whitman.

40, The old Log Cabin to which Whitman refers was likely part of the 1840 "log cabin campaign" of William

Udall, William M.

City Photographs—No. III

  • Date: 29 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Colden, the Hones, Whitehead and Valentine Hicks, William and James Jauncey, the Kortwrights, Livingstons

Dunlap, William Dunlap (1766–1839) was a painter who was also famous for writing History of the Rise

City Photographs

  • Date: 16 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hammersley, who served an equally long time; William Hammersley was one of the earliest physicians and

It is a large apartment, very clean of course, white-washed, with high-ceilings, well-lighted, perhaps

Brooklyniana, No. 15

  • Date: 15 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as we write, remember the scene, now more than thirty-five years ago—the group of bent, thin-faced, white-haired

Sale, William A. Sale was one of the builders of Old St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn.

William Furman served as county judge before Leffert Lefferts. Secretary—Freeman Hopkins.

William Quinn. The African M. E.

Church was the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for which William Quinn was the first and only church-planting

Brooklyniana, No. 13.

  • Date: 1 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There, too, is Rockaway beach, so white and silvery, calm and pleasant, enough, perhaps, with its long-rolling

Brooklyniana, No. 11

  • Date: 15 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

Brooklyniana, No. 10

  • Date: 8 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

Brooklyniana, No. 8

  • Date: 25 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

was of an ancient primitive kind, very staid, without any cheering, but then a plentiful waving of white

number of "old revolutionaries" on the ground, and along the line of march; and their bent forms and white

Brooklyniana, No. 7

  • Date: 18 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Kerosine.......... 200,000 Saleratus......... 50,000 Starch............ 30,000 Vinegar........... 12,000 White

lead........ 1,250,000 Whiting........... 68,000 Lamps, lanterns, & gas fixtures. 125,000 Stoves....

The White Lead factory gives employment to two hundred and twenty-five men.

The Brooklyn White Lead Works, established in 1822, was the oldest white lead factory in the state of

Annotations Text:

.; The Brooklyn White Lead Works, established in 1822, was the oldest white lead factory in the state

Brooklyniana, No. 6

  • Date: 11 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thomas Kirk, William Hartshorne, the veteran of United States printers Early type-setting experience.

Hartshorne, William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Whitman.

We have spoken of William Hartshorne—he was the veteran printer of the United States.

Of William Hartshorne, for the fifteen or twenty years previous to his death, the old man was often to

Brooklyniana, No. 5.---Continued.

  • Date: 11 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In 1908 this was replaced by a 149-foot tall column designed by Stanford White.

The monument to Major General William Jenkins Worth, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American

Annotations Text:

In 1908 this was replaced by a 149-foot tall column designed by Stanford White.; All three of these monuments

Important Ecclesiastical Gathering at Jamaica, L. I.

  • Date: 9 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

J., (New York: The Williams Printing Company, 1887), 52; Murgatroyd, Rev. E.

William P.

William B.

Brooklyniana, No. 5

  • Date: 4 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

"David and William Campbell, Builders. April 6, 1808." TO BE CONTINUED. This piece is unsigned.

Brooklyniana, No. 4

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Three beads of this black money, and six of white, were equivalent to an English penny, or a Dutch stuyver

An Old Brooklyn Landmark Going

  • Date: 10 October 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Then among the crowd you would see the tall stout shoulders of Joseph Sprague, with his white head; Before

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present

  • Date: 5 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Johnson said that, in his youth, he had visited and seen this grandson, whose name was William Jansen

William told his young visitor "I took one bag on each shoulder, one in each hand, and one in my teeth

This William lived to be 80 years of age, and died so late as 1805.

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, Past and Present

  • Date: 3 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, Jacob Ryerson, Alert Aersen, Tunis Buys-Garret Cowenhoven, Gabriel Sprong, Urian Andries, John Williams

Literary Notices

  • Date: 25 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White copper, and alloy with arsenic, was made at Herculaneum.

Can All Marry?

  • Date: 22 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as hard to find as the slipper of Cinderella; and so, in default of the fairy chaussure , the small white

The Celebration

  • Date: 28 April 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Water Department—Birkenbein, White, Moore, Barond, City Comptroller, J. N. Dutton.

Williams. Health Officer, Arthur Hughes. NEW HAVEN—Aldermen—H. S.

White, Ald. Huntley, and ex-Ald. Bannon acting as vice-chairmen.

Marion Hose Company No. 1—William H. Lawrence Foreman with a full company numbering 30.

White, whose own fair proportions distracted by no means from those of his noble team.

History of the Introduction of Water into the City

  • Date: 25 April 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Prentice, William Wall, Daniel Van Voorhis, James Carson Brevoort, Nicholas Wyckoff, Thomas Sullivan

[The Atlantic Monthly for January]

  • Date: 29 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The present number, besides its numerous learned and elaborate papers, such as those on White’s Shakspere

[New York Atlas, 26 December 1858]

  • Date: 26 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

beauty, flickers out of and over your face; a transparency beams in the eyes, both in the iris and the white

[New York Atlas, 19 December 1858]

  • Date: 19 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

being the real foundation of all manly beauty, and have done our part toward dissipating the pink-and-white

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was an English mathematician, astronomer, and scientist; William Harvey

The anecdote about the French statistician, which appears in the Harper's article, originates in William

[An incorrigible bookworm]

  • Date: 15 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

precious treasure a scrap of manuscript, a broken goblet—an old glove even—that the sacred hand of William

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