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I should not wonder if we were able to drop you a few $ every now and then, right along  I hope so any

He seemed very glad to see me and said had he known that you were in Washington he certainly should have

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

John Brown (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860), a correspondent for the New York Tribune during the war

, the originator of the "Lyceum" lectures, and editor of the North American Review in 1886.

He met Whitman in Boston in 1860 (Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman, The Library of Congress

He concluded his first letter to Whitman on June 25, 1860: "I love you, Walt!

His friends say that he cured one or two young soldiers who were dying of homesickness, by his sympathy

I am better pleased with the city than when I last wrote.

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

Thomas Cotrel or Cottrell (1808–1887) occupied various positions in the Brooklyn city government, including

It would seem as though Whitman were anticipating Jeff's letter of May 9, 1863: "Of course we all feel

Andrew was to come for me and we were going to see the Dr. to-day abt his going but he did not come and

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

Some casualties from the Twentieth Connecticut Volunteers were in Washington hospitals, and Walt had

See Jeff's letter to Walt from April 16, 1860.

such things are awful—not a soul here he knew or cared about, except me—yet the surgeons & nurses were

to take off the leg—he was under chloroform—they tried their best to bring him to—three long hours were

McReady I know to be as good a man as the war has received out of Brooklyn City" (Emory Holloway, ed.

, The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman [Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921],

After staying at Lowell a couple of days we were ordered to pack up and move again, so we started back

"revenue cutters," or coastal vessels, be dispatched to New York City in order to save them from falling

The telegram further stated: "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot

The "Dutchman of the 11th Corps" is a reference to the fact that the Eleventh Army was heavily populated

had arrived in mid-December 1862 in search of his brother, George Whitman, a Union soldier in the American

When the war ended, he became a pipe inspector for the City of Camden and the New York Metropolitan Water

need now to go to California, & they will finish the job complete— O mother, how welcome the shirts were—I

such a price—& so my old ones had got to be, when they come back from the wash I had to laugh, they were

she bears down pretty hard I guess when she irons them, & they showed something like the poor old city

told you two or three weeks ago, that is that I had to discard my old clothes, somewhat because they were

too thick & more still because they were worse gone in than any I ever yet wore I think in my life,

on acc't of the sun—yesterday & to-day however have been quite cool, east wind—Mother, the shirts were

Times, October 29, 1864 (Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman [Garden City

Relations between the two families were sometimes strained; see Whitman's letter from March 22, 1864.

May 27th 1863 Dear Walt, Mother recived your letter of last Tuesday, this morning  We were glad to hear

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

our tents, on the afternoon of our arrival, and I was promising myself a good nights sleep (as we were

all pretty tired after our march, and the work of pitching camp) but about 9 O clock at night we were

said he was carrying dipatches, to somebody, who was stationed somewhere, and that the dispatches were

from General Carter, and that the rebs had crossed the Cumberland River, and were in strong force, at

a place called Liberty about 10 miles from here, and were comeing on this way.

forget their kindness & real friendship & it appears as though they would continue just the same, if it were

years until Lincoln came in—They have bought another house, smaller, to live in, & are going to move (were

Mother, I think something of commencing a series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities

Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates during the early Washington years.

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

the most important, of the adulators who divided people arbitrarily into two categories: those who were

for and those who were against Walt Whitman.

he said that he would go and see Storrs and some other of the big guns of those societies in this city

We were all much pleased with the idea that you would come home to make us a visit, I do so hope that

I wish we were able to send you more money than we do but almost everyone you meet is a contributor to

Walt wrote: "I think something of commencing a series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

Rumors were widespread that Lee was about to attack Washington, for the War Department on June 23, 1863

Whitman described the career of Hicks (1748–1830), the famous American Quaker, in November Boughs (Richard

The city surrendered formally on July 4, 1863.

Sarah Hudson Rock City Falls, Saratoga co New York Member of co K 51st New York in Carver Hospital—lost

The rest of the contents were probably written either between or around those dates.

The rest of the contents were probably written either between or around those dates.; Transcribed from

I have been about the city same as usual, nearly—to the Hospitals, &c, I mean—I am told that I hover

thousand, indeed thirteen or fourteen hundred—it was an old reg't, veterans, old fighters , young as they were—they

were preceded by a fine mounted band of sixteen, (about ten bugles, the rest cymbals & drums)—I tell

accompaniment —the sabres rattled on a thousand men's sides—they had pistols, their heels spurred—handsome American

Record of the Commissioned Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Privates, of the Regiments Which Were

I recieved a letter from Memphis some time since stating that they were on boats bound for Vicksburg

Can you bring any influence to bear on this matter in the City of Washington.

Kirkwood (1807–1877), a prominent civil engineer and cofounder of the American Society of Civil Engineers

Vallandigham and his followers were allowed to draft the platform.

sight must have been presented by the field of action—I think the killed & wounded there on both sides were

as many as eighteen or twenty thousand—in one place, four or five acres, there were a thousand dead,

I have got in the way after going lightly as it were all through the wards of a hospital, & trying to

His Reg. belonged to the 12th army Corps, and I think were in the hottest of the fight.

is sincere and almost universal and yet a few, (and yet only a few when compared with the immense city

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

every thing was so quiet, I supposed all might go on smoothly—but it seems the passions of the people were

call it,) & I hear nothing in all directions but threats of ordering up the gunboats, cannonading the city

See also Lawrence Lader, "New York's Bloodiest Week," in American Heritage, 10 (June 1959).

I guess the only wonderfully frightened men were Opdike and Seymour, if we perhaps except the Copperhead

In the flashy, sensation style the papers were all far from the truth, ahead, but when it comes to the

God only knows where the city of New York would have been had we had Wood's police.

My idea is this, to make a certain portion of the city, say certain wards that make a district, not too

side of the draft and would help enforce it in the next, so that in a short time a majority of the city

Even the Whitmans were worried about how they would obtain $300 if Jeff were drafted, although in the

Names of those selected were published in the papers, and it was clear enough that the poor were disproportionately

stopped only after eleven New York regiments and one from Michigan were rushed to the city at a time

After the riots were over, James R.

Fernando Wood was a former mayor of New York City.

African Americans could join the Union army beginning in July 1862 when Lincoln signed the Militia Act

Though they received older uniforms, worse equipment, and lower pay than white soldiers, and were barred

from becoming officers, African Americans joined the effort and helped make the Civil War unmistakably

African Americans could join the Union army beginning in July 1862 when Lincoln signed the Militia Act

Though they received older uniforms, worse equipment, and lower pay than white soldiers, and were barred

from becoming officers, African Americans joined the effort and helped make the Civil War unmistakably

Our whole corps were encamped around here, before the surrender of Vicksburg, and we had dug miles of

enemy did not pretend to make a stand, untill they got behind their entrenchments at Jackson,  this City

river above the town and ran along the outskirts untill they struck the river again just below the city

The enemy were supposed to be from 25 to 30,000 strong and on the afternoon of July Tenth we drove their

up to the front one day, were moved back a short distance, the next, and held in reserve, but had to

force—in what Walt Whitman would later describe as a "tough little campaign" ("Fifty-First New York City

Veterans," The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, edited by Emory Holloway, [Garden City,

Hence, Johnston, near Jackson, and Pemberton, defending Vicksburg, were divided; and Johnston could not

I had a very pleasant passage and enjoyed the ride very much but yet I found that my wounds were somewhat

transferred to the Invalid Corps in July and sent to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where invalid soldiers were

thing, except to have killed & wounded a great many thousand men—It seems as though the two armies were

extras)—So I go round—Some of my boys die, some get well— O what a sweet unwonted love (those good American

My brave young American soldiers—now for so many months I have gone around among them, where they lie

James Redpath (1833–1891) was the author of The Life of John Brown (1860), a correspondent for the New

York Tribune during the war, the originator of the "Lyceum" lectures, and editor of the North American

He met Whitman in Boston in 1860 (The Library of Congress #90), and remained an enthusiastic admirer;

He concluded his first letter to Whitman on June 25, 1860: "I love you, Walt!

after the outset of our party, he would grow still & cloudy & up & unaccountably depart—but these were

I suppose you were at Charles Chauncey's funeral—tell me about it, & all particulars about his death.

When Horace Traubel finished reading this letter aloud, "Walt's eyes were full of tears.

remember that these government hospitals are not filled as with human débris like the old established city

hospitals, New York, &c., but mostly [with] these good-born American young men, appealing to me most

I make no bones of petting them just as if they were—have long given up formalities & reserves in my

to do any thing of the sort, but shall speak of him every time, & send him my love, just as if he were

Hugo, I suppose you were at Charles Chauncey's funeral—tell me all you hear about the particulars of

them & all his love—I think he told me about his brothers living in different places, one in New York City

I was very anxious he should be saved, & so were they all—he was well used by the attendants—poor boy

least in his memory—his fate was a hard one, to die so—He is one of the thousands of our unknown American

themselves up, aye even their young & precious lives, in their country's cause—Poor dear son, though you were

Relations between the two families were sometimes strained; see Whitman's letter from March 22, 1864.

Well, Lewy, the presentation to Dr Bliss came off last Saturday evening—it was in ward F—the beds were

the sick put in other wards—the room cleaned, hung with greens &c., looked very nice—the instruments were

I took a view of them, they were in four cases, & looked very fine—in the evening they were presented—speeches

were made by one & another—there was a band of music &c—I stopt about 20 minutes, but got tired, & went

off among the boys that were confined to their beds—the room was crowded, & every thing passed off right

would do—the ground seems to be slipping more & more from under their feet—Lew, the Union & the American

House during the hot season, but has quarters at a healthy location, some three miles north of the city

his wife, toward the latter part of the afternoon, out in barouche, on a pleasure ride through the city

They passed me once very close, and I saw the President in the face fully, as they were moving slow,

Capitol front is finished, with the splendid entrance to the Senate and Representative wings, the city

The City Railroad Company loses some horses every day.

Brignoli" because of his difficult first name, eventually became "Dear Old Brig" to American audiences

libretto in the opera Clari, which debuted in London in 1823, the song quickly became familiar to many Americans

We were paid this afternoon up to the 1st of July and tomorrow I shall send you by Express, at least

command is in Virginia so I suppose Andrew did not go to Newbern,  We had pretty hard fare while we were

York, and its almost enough to make a fellow ashamed of being a Yorker,  the first accounts we saw were

could hardly believe, that a thing of that kind would be alowed allowed to get such headway in the City

Wood Gov Seymour and a few more of the wire pullers and strung them up to one of the trees in the city

During the period of July 13–15, 1863, the city was disrupted by riots over the application of the 1863

The disturbance began in the Ninth Ward and spread quickly to other parts of the city.

They envisioned that while they were compelled to fight to free Negroes from slavery, that same group

The city's police force was unable to quell the riots, and order was restored to the city only when Union

Fernando Wood, mayor of New York at this time, and his brother Benjamin Wood, both Tammany leaders, were

receive your letter [This letter is currently lost] yesterday and was glad to heer from yo and yo were

and he went away without taking any thing he was in a waggon wagon with jim C ornell and Buckly they were

had any letter from hannah nor mary willy saw mary when he was at greenport Greenport she said they were

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

James "Jimmy" and George "Georgy" were Nancy and Andrew's sons, and Nancy was pregnant with Andrew, Jr

"Sis" is Manahatta "Hattie" Whitman (1860–1886), the elder daughter of Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman

Hattie and Jessie were both favorites of their uncle Walt.

She and Jeff had two daughters, Manahatta (b. 1860) and Jessie Louisa.

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

Perhaps both letters were written on Thursday, September 3, 1863.

See Thomas Jefferson Whitman's letter to Walt Whitman from April 3, 1860.

I feel thankful  In our ward the screws were put rather tight. out of a little over 3000 names they drew

Tom Geere, Tom McEvoy, Pat Hughes two or three in Amermans house, were all hit.

It seems to have avoided the Water Works, only one or two out of the whole 40 or 50 employed were hit

while in Husted & Carls store 7 out of 10 were taken.

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

Perhaps both letters were written on Thursday, September 3, 1863.

, 1860, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman noted that she was "in debt to ammerman about 10 dollars" (Trent).

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

Washington September 5 1863 Dear Nat I wish you were here if only to enjoy the bright & beautiful weather

ways—I mean the way often the amputated, sick, sometimes dying soldiers cling & cleave to me as it were

They have their own ways (not outside eclat, but in manly American hearts, however rude, however undemonstrative

30th with the $10 came all right, and I am sory I put you to the trouble of going to the bank, as we were

I last wrote you, from Covington where we were haveing first rate easy times and fine liveing.

We have been expecting orders to march every day, and this morning we were ordered to be ready to move

at any moment, with 3 days rations in Haversacks, but a few minutes ago the orders to be ready, were

not likely to meet with much resistance at Knoxville)  It seemed to be the general opinion that we were

Knoxville in order to draw General Longstreet's army farther away from General Bragg's forces, which were

By September 9, 1863, he had occupied that city and Bragg's forces had removed to Chickamauga.

In our ward the screws were put rather tight, out of a little over 3000 names they drew 1056, nearly

Washington September 15 1863 Dear Mother Your letters were very acceptable—one came just as I was putting

the very hour of death or just the same when they recover, or partially recover—I never knew what American

young men were till I have been in the hospitals— Well, mother, I have got writing on—there is nothing

on September 7, 1863, that, as he wrote, orders for his regiment to move to join Burnside's forces were

Most of its members were Irish.

Comprising over half the city's foreign-born population of 400,000, out of a total of about 814,000,

the Irish were the main source of cheap labor, virtually its peon class.

to exist" American Heritage, 10 (June 1959), 48.

Well, Thu, it seems as though they were moving again in front—Pleasonton has been advancing & fighting—he

had all the cavalry moving, had quite a fight last Sunday, driving Stuart —a good many wounded were

Washington theaters were featuring "ghosts" in September 1863.

John Brown (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860), a correspondent for the New York Tribune during the war

, the originator of the "Lyceum" lectures, and editor of the North American Review in 1886.

He met Whitman in Boston in 1860 (Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman, The Library of Congress

He concluded his first letter to Whitman on June 25, 1860: "I love you, Walt!