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This poem was published on the same day in the New York Evening Post, p. 2.

and put in a volume, as giving the clue to all departments of our early history, for the use of that part

The houses were one story, of logs, covered with thatch.

Some had seen a witch burnt—and then they all told stories of witchcraft.

The records he kept of the town still exist, though dimly legible in parts.

All day at this part of Fulton street, the living thousands are the thickest—always hurrying along.

Commencing at this part of Fulton street, within stone's throw of the grave yard, and running east for

The position of the old grave yard, in the most thronged part of Fulton street, has of course made it

In the new south part of the Hospital are the sailors' wards, &c.

This—as I think I have mentioned before—is in a little two-story building, standing by itself, between

These being collected together in the upper story of the building, with the accumulations of past curators

thirty thousand men, women and children, either out of our own city or concentred here from other parts

The little two story building to the left is the place for preparations in morbid and healthy anatomy

In the second story is the Museum, valuable to students and amateurs.

In the next cot is Frank Osborne, a young fireman, belonging to No. 2 steamer; he was knocked down while

But there is another and full as important side to the story.

Imagine a long one-story wooden shed like short wide rope walk well whitewashed, then cluster ten or

Bowen: An Unknown Whitman Letter Recommending an Army Doctor," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1, no. 2

Coleman, Willie Durkee, and Kate Lane.

On February 10, 1863 , Jeff sent $2 from Theodore A.

Drake, a waterworks inspector, and $2 from John D. Martin.

Bowen: An Unknown Whitman Letter Recommending an Army Doctor," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1, no. 2

Coleman, Willie Durkee, and Kate Lane.

On February 10, 1863, Jeff sent $2 from Theodore A.

Drake, a waterworks inspector, and $2 from John D. Martin.

A powerful faction, ruling the North, was art and part A term in Scottish law indicating the indirect

, hovering on the edge at first, and then merged in its very midst, and destined to play a leading part

The omnibuses and other vehicles had been all turned off, leaving an unusual hush in that busy part of

He has been in genuine fighting service in all parts of the war, including the Carolina coast, the battles

above named, most parts of Northern and Eastern Virginia and Western Maryland, also Vicksburgh, Jackson

He took part in the hottest service there, and so on through Spottsylvania, In the Battle of Spotsylvania

at the battle of Poplar Grove Church, In the Battle of Poplar Grove (Virginia, September 30–October 2,

For some of Whitman's prison correspondence, see his letters of October 2, 1864 and October 23, 1864

.; In the Battle of Poplar Grove (Virginia, September 30–October 2, 1864), alternately known as the Battle

For some of Whitman's prison correspondence, see his letters of October 2, 1864 and October 23, 1864,

marching down from camp by regiments, to do our picket, and the incessant efforts of the men in all parts

I have, for this letter, some items, a part of the general history of the war, which I think you will

It will be remembered that this regiment formed part of the original Burnside expedition.

of Northern Virginia and Northwestern Maryland, and taking an active and important part during that

A PARTING REMARK.

side of the bed, with a quantity of blood and bloody pieces of muslin—nearly full; that tells the story

But there is every kind of wound in every part of the body.

age of twenty-five years, the four last of which he had spent in active service in the war in all parts

Now, such a list makes a Washington journal much more called for, and is an indispensable part of the

Let me mention a visit I made to the collection of barrack-like one-story edifices, called the Campbell

LONG ONE-STORY WOODEN BARRACKS.

In general terms a hospital in and around Washington is a cluster of long one-story wooden buildings

There will be ten or twelve wards grouped together, named A, B, C, &c., or numerically 1, 2, or 3, &c

Then there were others, off and on; the Whitby (she was the first, and was burnt toward the latter part

Most of the crowding of the prisoners, and the more odious part of the treatment occurred in the earlier

The ceremony alluded to, consisted of two parts, one on the 12th of April, 1808, and a following one

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 236–245.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 236–245.

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

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

Dutch West India Company (1622–1791) oversaw the colony of New Netherland, of which New York was a 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:

We have frequently seen them when a youngster, while rambling about this part of King's County.

soon after the men commenced working; and the event making a good deal of talk, before noon a large part

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 261–267.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 261–267.

we have at one time or another personally visited), and all of them in operation now in different parts

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 249–253.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 249–253.

T HE religious growth and character of a settlement is by no means the least important part of its record

stood for over a century—indeed for some hundred and twenty-five or thirty years, and for the greater part

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 257–261.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 257–261.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 253–257.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 253–257.

His quiet life, and his never having taken a part in momentous affairs of any kind, make it impossible

Hartshorne occupied part of an old Revolutionary building in Fulton street, east side, third door below

For our own part, we used always to stop and salute him, with good-will and reverence.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 245–249.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 245–249.

Wallabout to Red Hook, that formed the American lines, in the battle of Long Island, in the early part

No part of the city has made a more utter revolution in its topography than this quarter of Brooklyn.

Part of it was, in due time, filled up by the city, and forms the present City Park, with its northerly

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 267–270.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 267–270.

great nation of the Lenni-Lenape, or Delawares, of which stock the aborigines of this region were a part

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 274–278.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 274–278.

This was the spot occupied, until 1858, by the three-story edifice known as the Apprentices' Library.

Clustering around the last-named establishment, and forming part of its authentic records, are so many

The County Clerk's apartments were in the same edifice, and in the upper story the Judges of several

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 283–288.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 283–288.

Exchange building was quite a large edifice at the corner of Fulton and Cranberry streets, and the third story

Sheriffs' administrations, and of the residences of many of them and their families in the dwelling part

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 270–274.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 270–274.

transcribe, however, an account of one of the largest fires that occurred in Brooklyn in the earliest part

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 278–283.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 278–283.

Demarest with reference to the Brooklyn of former days, "most of which he saw, and part of which he was

the hand of Washington himself on one of his visits here, and had lived among men who took an active part

The demolition took place in the early part of the present century, some fifty-five or sixty years since

a private in Thirteenth Regiment; served the following hundred days in Baltimore, Washington, and parts

—Spottsylvania; In the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse (Virginia, May 8–21, 1864), part of Grant's

—North Anna; The Battle of North Anna (Virginia, May 23–26, 1864) was part of General Grant's Overland

June 2.

For some of George Whitman's prison correspondence, see his letters of October 2, 1864 and October 23

ended on May 30, 1864 (see above note), although a minor skirmish erupted at Bethesda Creek on June 2.

as the Battle of Poplar Spring Church or the Battle of Peebles' Farm (Virginia, September 30–October 2,

For some of George Whitman's prison correspondence, see his letters of October 2, 1864 and October 23

The original Military Garden was that part of the edifice nearest to Joralemon street, and was standing

The large edifice, the eastern part of Military Garden, was put up about 1826 or '7, by Mr.

These gardens were a conspicuous feature in Brooklyn during the earlier part of the present century.

These stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

Here in the early part of the century, the dominic often preached in the Dutch tongue.

He took an early part in the struggle, being roused by the assault of the Baltimore mob on the United

him the next day to Sergeant-Major, in which capacity he left with the regiment in October, 1861, as part

The latter part of the summer of 1862, with the fall and early winter, gave Lieutenant Whitman and his

On the 30th of September last a reconnoissance reconnaissance in strong force—comprising part of the

Ninth and part of the Fifth Corps—advancing to the west, attacked some rebel works near Poplar Grove

alternately the Battle of Poplar Spring Church or the Battle of Peebles' Farm (Virginia, September 30–October 2,

For some of his prison correspondence, see his October 2, 1864, and October 23, 1864, letters to his

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

minutes, and shortly afterwards we made a solemn procession down to the water, each man carrying a part

See the Biblical story (Luke 9) of Jesus providing a feast for 5000 people with five loaves of bread

They told love stories, and ghost stories, and sang country ditties; but the night and the scene mellowed

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 319–321.

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

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

Caesar's betrayal and murder took place at the foot of Pompey's Statue in Rome.; See the Biblical story

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 319–321.

and intelligence here, and the necessities of their occupations did not prevent them from devoting a part

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 304-306.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 304-306.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 306–309.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 306–309.

There are—so I am told—a few Indians more toward the western part of Easthampton, who live nearer to

other to the most deadly combats—we tore various past passions into tatters See Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2,

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 316–318.

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

their soldiers on the eve of battle in Shakespeare's Richard III, Act 5.; See Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2,

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 316–318.

Whitman is playing here on Hamlet's line in Act 2, Scene 2 of Hamlet : "I am but mad north-north-west

: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." and the minister laughed and told stories

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 312–316.

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

Whitman is playing here on Hamlet's line in Act 2, Scene 2 of Hamlet: "I am but mad north-north-west:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 312–316.

Philip Sheridan defeated Confederate General Jubal Early at the Battle of Waynesboro (Virginia, March 2,

For instance, the different parts of the procession were characterized by a charming looseness and independence

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

Philip Sheridan defeated Confederate General Jubal Early at the Battle of Waynesboro (Virginia, March 2,

Soon after the painting was made, in the earliest part of the present century, it was exhibited here

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:

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 306–309.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 306–309.

At the very first, the houses were mostly one story huts of logs.

The northern part of the island furnished abundance of stone.

The children and negroes grouped in the spacious chimney corners, cracking nuts and telling stories by

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 300–304.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 300–304.

Directors and a few warm friends of the project put their hands in their own pockets and raised a great part

The extreme northern part is allotted to colored persons. The south wing is four stories in height.

.. 145 Italy....    3 Germany............. 87 China....    3 Sweden & Norway..... 80 Finland....    2

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 288–292.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 288–292.

But we must not forget the old one-story house on the east upper corner of Nassau street, with the tough

The old Log Cabin, famous in the days of '40, The old Log Cabin to which Whitman refers was likely part

Merceins, Stantons, Suydams, Baches, Tredwells, Carters, Hickses, Schencks, Schoonmakers, Smiths, Storys

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 292–296.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 292–296.

Among other points of interest in the neighborhood we are speaking of was an ancient two-story house,

The large edifice, the eastern part of [the] Military Garden, was put up about 1826 or '7, by Mr.

These gardens, let us here remark, were a conspicuous feature in Brooklyn during the earlier part of

Those stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 296–300.

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

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 296–300.

Gelardi, “Nearshore Saltwater Sportfish,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, pg. 2,

Rockaway, too, and many other parts of sea-girt Paumanok.

Gelardi, “Nearshore Saltwater Sportfish,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, pg. 2,

NO. 2. Original Stock of King's County. First Discovery, 1609. Settlement—1613– 16-26 1626 .

Romantic Stories of the Rapeljes and Jansens. Incident of physical strength. Rule Van Brunt.

Emory Holloway, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921), 2:228.

Romantic stories were told in early times about these same Rapljes Rapeljes .

One of the stories was that they were Moors by birth, and of prodigious strength.

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

Emory Holloway, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921), 2:228.; "Wallabout" is a mutation

Brodky Lawrence, Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Vol. 2:

And even good singers, upon the stage beyond them, you may see presently, who will mar their parts with

In answer to the old man's rebukes and questions, we hear the story of love.

I always thought the plot of the "Favorite" a peculiarly well-proportioned and charming story.

Is it the story of his own sad wreck he utters? Listen.

Brodky Lawrence, Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Vol. 2:

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:

For my own part, I have more than once chosen the latter alternative.

The burying part may be well enough, but the living is much such living as a tree in the farmer's door-yard

Here about the eastern parts, in particular, I find whole villages, or rather scattered hamlets, whose

Through a gate, some five or six rods, was a large two-story double house, and the barns and outbuilding

His farms he put out on shares: all his part of the product was sold over to the stores, and he purchased

New York city has eight or ten times that number—does any one suppose that any fair average eighth part

At its easternmost part, Long Island opens like the upper and under jaws of some prodigious alligator

The bay that lies in here, and part of which forms the splendid harbor of Greenport, where the Long Island

Gelardi, “Nearshore Saltwater Sportfish,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, pg. 2,

and the Use and Abuse of Calomel In Nineteenth Century America," Pharmacy in History , Vol. 13, No. 2

Gelardi, “Nearshore Saltwater Sportfish,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, pg. 2,

Theory and the Use and Abuse of Calomel In Nineteenth Century America,"Pharmacy in History, Vol. 13, No. 2

His house is a four-story one, if you please, brown-stone front, and all that sort of thing. Mrs.

abundantly expresses the state of expectation on the one hand, and the necessary hesitation on the part

John's Park; Originally part of a 62-acre farm owned by a seventeenth-century Dutch immigrant, St.

The railroad then built a $2 million freight depot on the grounds to serve the West Side Line.

skin, with a pair of curling tongs for a thyrsus , and we have the pet of the Fifth Avenoodledom " (2:

The railroad then built a $2 million freight depot on the grounds to serve the West Side Line.

a skin, with a pair of curling tongs for a thyrsus, and we have the pet of the Fifth Avenoodledom" (2:

called by many a perfect beauty; questionless, of decided talent; one about whom many interesting stories