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soldiers], down at the depot—[It w]as one of the same [old] sights, I could not keep the tears out of my

lately as though I must have some intermission, I feel well & hearty enough, & was never better, but my

—I] wish you would write very so[on again] too—I feel uneasy about [you]—I send my love to Jeff & Mat

not worry & feel unhappy about money matters—I know things are very high—Mother, I suppose you got my

believe I worry about worldly things less than ever, if that is possible)—Tell Jeff & Mat I send them my

Whitman is possibly referring to Captain John Mullan.

I should like for Jeff (some time when he is over in New York) to stop at the place where I had my pictures

I believe I have written all that I can think at present so good bye Mamy,  give my love to Mattie, Jeff

somewhat impressed, but I could not see any thing in it worth calling supernatural—I wouldnt turn on my

could write— Wednesday forenoon—Mother, I didn't get the letter in the mail yesterday—I have just had my

breakfast, some good tea & good toast & butter—I write this in my room, 456 Sixth st.

April 7/64— father i have been here to se yo and yo was not at home i leave my best wishes hoping yo

infantry, that wouldn't do the same, on occasion— Tuesday morning April 12th Mother, I will finish my

envelopes, & one to George—Write how you are, dear Mother, & all the rest—I want to see you all—Jeff, my

sis is—I am well as usual, indeed first rate every way—I want to come on in a month, & try to print my

enclose you $50.00 and am sorry that I cant send you more, but Mother if you need more before I get my

I have a nice wall tent all alone to myself and if I have some one to look out for my grub, I shall be

Mother I believe I mentioned in my last letter about your haveing some of my pictures taken and sent

Dear Mother, give my love to all and let me hear from you often. Direct Capt G. W. W.  

The boys had the devils own time to keep from getting swamped,  I just fixed my bunk so there was no

danger of my getting drowned, and then turned in and slept till it stopped raining.

been there since last Sept)  Pooley is here and just as good natured as ever,  McReady is 2d Lieut of my

Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Walt Whitman Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript

after a long spell of rain storms, but the last two or three days very fine—Mother, I suppose you got my

every thing to fight for their last chance—calling in their forces from southwest &c—Dear Mother, give my

love to dear brother Jeff & Mat & all—I write this in my room, 6th st— Walt Walt Whitman to Louisa Van

Whitman: I have been very much interested in your hospital work, of which I have heard through my brother

it, are very serious about it—Mother, it is serious times—I do not feel to fret or whimper, but in my

—& how the dear little girls—Jeff, I believe the devil is in it about my writing you, I have laid out

Mother, I have just had my breakfast, I had it in my room, some hard biscuits warmed on stove, & a first

My friend, you must accept the men's thanks, through me.

My dear sir, your contributions are very, very welcome—they go to the direct sustenance, cheer, & comfort

wrote yesterday to Han, & sent one of George's last letters from Annapolis—Mother, I suppose you got my

blessing on him, he says, I am no scholar & you are—poor dying man, I told him I hoped from the bottom of my

—dear sister Mat, I quite want to see you & California, not forgetting my little Hattie too— Walt 2 o'clock

can know the men so well as I do, I sometimes think— Mother, I am writing this in Willard's hotel, on my

I sent my trunk from Annapolis to Washingt to our Sutler, who keeps a place in Washington  his name is

As Captain Whitman marched through Washington with his regiment, Walt Whitman walked beside him.

My wishes are that this may find you enjoying good health and plenty of kind friends to associate with

close by expecting to have a better opportunity of writing some thing else when you hear from me again My

My wishes are that this may find you enjoying good health and plenty of kind friends to associate with

close by expecting to have a better opportunity of writing some thing else when you hear from me again My

On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would

know one bit more on what they are writing about than Ed does— Mother, you say in your letter you got my

I hear from him, before sending them— I remain well as usual—the poor fellow I mentioned in one of my

I send my love to you & Jeff & all—we are having a very pleasant coolish day here—I am going down to

post office to leave this, & then up to my old friends O'Connors, to dinner, & then down to hospital—Well

by, dear Mother, for present— Walt Tuesday afternoon 3 o'clock—Mother, just as I was going to seal my

is one reason why I had rather be sent to the Regiment I would not stay around this City the rest of my

My best wishes are with you for indeed I have found a Friend at last to the poor Soldier I will close

On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would

Mother, of course you got my letter of Tuesday, 3d, with the letter from George dated Bristoe station—I

John Frederick Schiller Gray was a captain in the Twentieth New York Infantry and later held the same

Dear Father, As I always wish to fulfill my promises I will enjoy this afternoon in writing a letter

in order to let you know how I got home and how my health is So I left Washington that evening at 5 Oc

I went to the Soldiers Home and got my supper and took a good sleep I left Pittsburg a little after 2

to the door whar I had a grand interunion with my friends I found all of them in good health they were

If my friend is in the Hospital yet tell him I got home all right I guess I will close by biding you

Whitman asks Brown to allow Livensparger to read his letter and to tell him "that I sent him my love.

I felt as though it was my duty to go to him for he is one of the dearest brothers ever was given to

& surgery, instead of being racked through the long journey up here—still may come in here—Mother, my

I cross the long Bridge but if I can not get a chance, I hope you will write whenever convient Give my

On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would

those terrible long lists—Still there is a sufficient sprinkling of deeply distressing cases—I find my

I lost nearly half of my Co. but we won the fight . . .

I lost nearly half of my Co but we won the fight and the rebel loss was pretty heavy.

We have had the best of the fighting so far and its my opinion that Genl Grant has got Lee in a pretty

Washington May 18 1864 Dearest Mother, I will only write you a hasty note this time, as I am pretty tired, & my

Did you send my last letter to Han?

I lost one man killed and two wounded in my Co out of 11 that I took in the fight.

Give my love to all G W Whitman George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 20 May 1864

Walt recorded in his diary for May 9, 1865, that Captain Samuel Pooley (see George Whitman's letter to

appeal very strongly—(I sometimes think only one going among the men as I do, with personal feeling & my

I said, What is it, my dear, do you want any thing?

Richmond— Walt— Jeff, of course you must take this up to mother soon as you go home—Jeff, I have changed my

51st—George's letter to me of 16th I sent to Han—should like to see Mr Worthen if he comes here—give my

remembrance to Mr Lane I have writ to George several times in hopes one at least may reach him—Matty, my

In addition, he altered phraseology: "What is it, my dear" became "What is it, my boy?"

like to hear about the poor young men, after I have once begun to mention them—Mother, I have changed my

house was sold & the old lady I hired the room from had to move out & give the owner possession—I like my

new quarters pretty well—I have a room to myself, 3d story hall bedroom, I have my meals in the house

all—I will surely have to come home as soon as this Richmond campaign is decided—then I want to print my

feel in health these days, dear mother—I hope you are well & in good heart yet—I remain pretty well, my

saw him this morning—I am still around among wounded same, but will not make you feel blue by filling my

neglected again to send him word—I have not heard from home now in some days—I am going to put up a lot of my

Excuse all mistakes an Bad Writing Also Excuse mi shoart letter this tim an i will try and Do Better in my

Department What has become of Mr OConnors People are they still in washington if they are give them my

you will I shall be very much obliged If this letter gets to you and I receive an ans I will send you my

his "head feels disagreeable"; In a letter dated May 30, 1864 also to Louisa Whitman, he wrote that "my

Baldwin entered the army at age twenty-nine, became a captain on October 1, 1862, was wounded at Laurel

Mother, I have not felt well at all the last week—I had spells of deathly faintness, and bad trouble in my

—My head was the worst, though I don't know, the faint weak spells were not very pleasant—but I feel

(near 3d st)—it is not a very good place, I don't like it so well as I did cooking my own grub—& the

Dear Friend I once promised to write you & as often as convient So far I have fullfulled my part.

Since my joineing My Regiment It has been nothing but marching & fighting the Johnnys.

The reason of my leaveing was because I could not see to ride or walk.

often as possible Even if it is pencil marks I hope that this may find you enjoying good health Give my

On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would

a bad place, armory building, where the worst wounds were, & have absorbed too much of the virus in my

ambulances—tell Jeff the $10 from Mr Lane for the soldiers came safe—I shall write to Jeff right away—I send my

there also, but I do not go myself at present—it is probable that the hospital poison has affected my

system, & I find it worse than I calculated—I have spells of faintness & very bad feeling in my head

, fullness & pain—& besides sore throat—my boarding place, 502 Pennsylvania av, is a miserable place,

written to George since—I shall write again to him in a day or two—if Mary comes home tell her I sent her my

S So I concluded to find out by dropping a few lines to you I hope my Dear Uncle that nothing has befallen

On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would

come home for a short time, & pretty soon—(I will try it two or three days yet, though, & if I find my

pretty buissy building rifle pitts, cutting roads and throwing up earthworks &c (I believe I told you in my

know I got home all safe—I do not feel very well yet, but expect to, or begin to, pretty soon—I send my

I think I never in my life felt so wholly blue and unhappy about any one's going away as I did, and have

June 28th [1864] Dear Walt It was my purpose to write to you while home, but ill health prevented me

from fulfilling half my plans.

We have a letter from my brother George, down to 18th inst. he was all safe.

My mother & folks are all well— I rece'd the letter enveloped to me 25th—I sent a line to Wm O'Connor

Ashton with friendship—also to Arnold Johnson with sincere thanks & tell him I am getting well—& give my

You see Mother I have to date my letters yet from near Petersburg instead of from Richmond We are laying

I hold my own first rate and feel about as well as ever I did.

been kept pretty buisy trying to get things straigtened out, but this morning one of our seniour Captains

Give my love to all. George W.

Shall I live to write my Shakespeare book and a score of gorgeous romances?

Rely on me, Walt, for anything you want done here, or anything at all in my power.

Of the O'Connors, Thomas Jefferson Whitman wrote on June 13, 1863: "I am real glad, my dear Walt, that

Brooklyn Tuesday even'g July 5 1864 My dear friend I have had the misfortune to fall back a little since

same as if written to her—I do not write much, nor do any thing hardly, but keep as quiet as possible—my

physician thinks that time, with the change of locality, & my own latent recuperative power, will make

I intend to move heaven & earth to publish my "Drum-Taps" as soon as I am able to go around.

love—also Ashton—I will write should there be any change in my condition— Good bye for present, my dear

Of the O'Connors, Thomas Jefferson Whitman wrote on June 13, 1863: "I am real glad, my dear Walt, that

O'Connor related in a letter on November 24, 1863, that the Count had said to her recently: "My Gott,

take the present time to write a few lines to you to let you know how I am I am very well at presant my