Search Results

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

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

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

Accordingly, the last and crowning part of a celebré , beyond his speeches, his biography, or any or

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

He first spoke of the physical features of India, illustrating this part of his lecture upon a large

Hindustan, Birmah, Siam, Lahore, Curwal, Delhi, Aimeer, Gundwona, Bengal, Nephal, Bootan, Burmah, &c., all parts

most grand and picturesque scenery that can be found in the world, while the soil in the southern part

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

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

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

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,

Toward the latter part of the afternoon you see the furloughed men, sometimes singly, sometimes in small

I found he wanted to go part of the road in my direction, so we walked on together.

His father was dead and his mother living in some part of East Tennessee; all the men were from that

part of the country.

Newspaper Abstracts: July 1, 1863–December 31, 1865 (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2000), 2:

Newspaper Abstracts: July 1, 1863–December 31, 1865 (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2000), 2:

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

Then we are told that the Fifty-first esteems, as part of its regimental history, the making of such

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

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,

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

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

Spent a good part of the day in a large brick mansion, on the banks of the Rappahannock, immediately

These wards are either lettered alphabetically, Ward G, Ward K, or else numerically, 1, 2, 3, &c.

Not long since I sat a good part of the morning by his bedside, Ward E, Armory-square.

LATTER PART OF 1864 IN NEW-YORK.

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

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

The Fifty-first New-York Volunteers are a part of the Second Division of the Ninth Corps, were recruiting

the war he continued teaching dance lessons at the ballroom of Tammany Hall in New York City. as a part

Their charge was vehement, and caused that part of our force on the right of the Fifty-first to give

See George Whitman's October 2, 1864 letter to his mother for his brief account of capture.

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

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

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

Church and was the site of the Battle of Peebles' Farm (see above note).; See George Whitman's October 2,

Some say too, the columns front and rear of the Old Capitol part, there in the centre center , are now

The ambulances are, of course, the most melancholy part of the army-wagon panorama that one sees everywhere

Then the trees and their dark and glistening verdure play their 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:

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

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:

Earlier in the Summer you might have seen the President and his wife, toward the latter part of the afternoon

or fifteen of the convalescent soldiers, young men, nurses, &c., with books in their hands, taking part

the cots themselves, with their drapery of white curtains, and the shadows down the lower and upper parts

Originally part of a libretto in the opera Clari , which debuted in London in 1823, the song quickly

Then there hangs something majestic about a man who has borne his part in battles, especially if he is

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.

NUMBERS OF SICK AND WOUNDED GATHERED IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON—THE PLAN OF ONE-STORY BARRACKS FOR THEM

These sheds now adopted are long, one-story edifices, sometimes ranged along in a row, with their heads

to the street, and numbered either alphabetically, Wards A, or B, C, D and so on; or Wards 1, 2, 3,

A few weeks ago the vast area of the second story of that noblest of Washington buildings, the Patent

Let me tell his story—it is but one of thousands.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is a stage, with theatrical and lyric performances; also a brass band, in another part of the house

suddenly beholds (although positively invisible to me and the rest) a mortal row over in a distant part

Up around the one story, toward the roof, along the pillars and gas-fixings, &c., are trained slender

veracious sketch of the route we are sketching, there ought to enter, and form a good constituent part

And how he used to play such parts as Pythias , to Forrest's Damon ?

Morrell, 1866), 2:64. Thanks to Mary L.

Morrell, 1866), 2:64. Thanks to Mary L.

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.

It is, perhaps (although you ain't sure), a four or five story brick-fronted house, pierced with windows

Yet the complexion of this part of the Bowery is not invariably that of conscious innocence.

Whoever was present at the Branch, or indeed anywhere in the lower part of the Bowery the night after

Wishing to make my parting bow to this worthy old establishment, by bringing things up to date, I took

I shook hands with them all round at parting, and I know we all felt as if it were the separation of

She brings illustrated and other papers, books of stories, little comforts in the way of eating and drinking

Only 2 deaths, however, from suicide.

This is considered a part of the establishment, being under the same control, Governors, and financial

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.

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.

In a former part of my account, Dr. Wright Post's name was mentioned.

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 2:268.

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 2:25. —and later ones of the great Kean.

and women of New York, to churches, tract societies, missions for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts

For my part, as I stand in the presence of these fine and eloquent faces, I acknowledge without demur

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 2:268.; Sarah Siddons was another actress praised by Whitman in

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 2:25.; It is unclear which Kean Whitman refers to here.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.