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Mch 26, Left Newport News & went on board steamboat John Brooks. 2 Compys went to guard the baggage on

April 4th changed camp to the other side and about 1 1/2 miles from town, Apl 9 A scouting party was

13th Routed out about 11 P.M. told to get ready to get in light marching order Apl 14th Left about 2

feet, and a breakfast Apl 1th Struck tents about 4 A.M. marched to Winchester (15 miles) arrived at 2

PM marched through and about 2 miles to the other side encamped (the 21st Mass was left to protect Mt

have put 300 in the bank but so it is we live very saving indeed but things is very high i have got 2

Fugitive Mail: The Deliverance of Henry 'Box' Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics," American Studies 50:1/2

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 2 May 1863

Hart was granted several leaves of absence from March 2, 1863, through June 1863.

Jeff wrote of Hannah on May 2, 1863: "We have not heard from Han since the letter that I sent you.

Similarly, Lane sent dollar contributions from six individuals on May 2, 1863.

Redpath's article appeared in the April 10, 1863, edition of Boston's Commonwealth (2).

Similarly, Lane sent dollar contributions from six individuals on May 2, 1863.

.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921], 2:29).

is a small one horse specimen of a southren Villiage, about 32 miles from Lexington, in the central part

Lee's army had retreated to Gordonsville, Virginia, it was easily routed by Jackson's attack of May 2,

few lines to George & send them at the same time with this— Lowell is in the middle of the eastern part

.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921], 2:38–39).

in the Brooklyn Daily Union of September 22, 1863 (The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2:

Hooker did not win a very great victory either or he would hardly lie idle so long during the best part

excuse bad riten an short leter yours rspectivly Direct your leter to Co E 2 tennossee regment Conal

Budell, "Written by Walt Whitman, a friend," Prologue Magazine 42, no. 2 [Summer 2016]: 36–45). written

Budell, "Written by Walt Whitman, a friend," Prologue Magazine 42, no. 2 [Summer 2016]: 36–45).

with her now I know  Andrew has not yet gone to Newbern but thinks that they will get off the fore part

Sunday May 10th—'63 Sunday May 10th spen d t a good part of the day the day in Armory Sq.

about an even chance, go or stay, with a little leaning toward the first—But, mother, to make a long story

See Whitman's letters from January 2–4, 1863.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1933], 133), Whitman wrote a (lost) letter to Vliet on May 2,

inform you that I am well and that my leg is mending verry fast I left Washington on the 2nd on the 6 1/2

I think that rioting in these parts has received its quietus mostly from that Reg of Michigan boys that

the thing out complete, get the men in the field and every thing done before drafting in any other part

enforce it in the next, so that in a short time a majority of the city would want it enforced in the parts

Each Brigade had a certain part of the line, and the regts, releived each other every 24 hours  that

On June 2, 1863, however, Burnside received a dispatch from Washington requesting him to support General

Walt Whitman, edited by Emory Holloway, [Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921] 2:

Tripp, suffered heavy losses on July 2, 1863, in defense of the Emmitsburg Road at the Battle of Gettysburg

Grier, ed., Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:

usual—most of the others are the same—there have been quite a good many deaths—the young man who lay in bed 2

hair—the chaplain took me in yesterday, showed me the child, & Mrs Jackson, his wife, told me the whole story

Her hair is getting lighter and i guess will be about the color of mine The enclosed $2 is sent $1 by

between my lads & me)—I pet them, some of them it does so much good, they are so faint & lonesome—at parting

, it may be" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961], 2:

After I finish this letter (and then dining at a restaurant), I shall give the latter part of the afternoon

all right with him—it seems as if the 9th corps had returned to Vicksburgh, & some acc'ts say that part

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

We will probaly probably leave here in the course of a few days, and go to some other part of the State

Grier, ed., Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:

—Mother, don't you miss Walt —loafing around, & carting himself off to New York, toward the latter part

thought of you too, how it must have exhausted you those hot days—I still occupy the same little 3d story

this district Jeff feels confidant confident he will be drafted if he does he will not go there is part

like hard times i spoke to some of them one from Ohio said he had never been home since he listed over 2

letter to her i get all the letter you send Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [31 August or 2

letter dates to a range from August 31, 1863, the most likely date of composition, through September 2,

mentions the drafts in Brooklyn: military drafts were held on August 31, September 1, and September 2,

Therefore, Louisa presumably wrote one letter to Walt on August 31, 1863 and another on September 2.

, 1863 to Walt, this letter could date as late as September 2, 1863.

The Eleventh and the Sixteenth Ward Complete," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 2, 1863, 2.

One might assume, then, that both letters were written on Wednesday, September 2, if it were not for

See Thomas Jefferson Whitman's letter to Walt Whitman from April 2, 1863.

One might assume, then, that both letters were written on Wednesday, September 2, if it were not for

My morning report this morning (and for the last 8 days has been the same) was I—Capt, 2 Sergts 2 Corpls

Well, mother, I have writ quite a letter—it is between 2 & 3 o'clock—I am in Major Hapgood's all alone—from

., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1921), 2:

1870" (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77] 2:

[New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:318–319).

went in the ambulance to the depot & took the Cars north at 11 oclock & we got to philadelphia about 2

[New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:318–319).

[New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:318–319).

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:

I suppose their is at least 30 000 men nibbling around in Kansas and other parts west.

When we first came here our Brigade was split up and sent to different parts of the State, and as our

Mother I wrote you a letter about 2 weeks ago, and at the same time I sent you some money by Express,

Andrew and his wife Nancy expected her to pay their rent: "i suppose martha has told nancy i have got 2

old retort that it was me that was stingey with my bank book....i told her the other day becaus i had 2

[New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:318–319).

Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921), 2:

the wounded, sick, dying soldiers here came safe to hand—it is being sacredly distributed to them—part

minister to them, to sit by them—some so wind themselves around one's heart, & will be kissed at parting

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:

wounded three weeks ago to-day at Culpepper—hit by fragment of a shell in the leg below the knee—a large part

cases & is one of the least visited—there is not much hospital visiting here now—it has become an old story—the

few gas-burners about half turned down—It is Sunday evening—to-day I have been in the hospital, one part

serious for that" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961], 2:

See also Stilwell's letters to Whitman from July 5, 1864, and September 2, 1864.

Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921), 2: