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After three days of fighting, Union forces retreated to Chattanooga, where they were beseiged for several

There were several skirmishes around Charleston throughout 1863, including two major battles in April

Both of these battles were Confederate victories.

THE ARMY YOUNG AND AMERICAN. I must give one short paragraph to that heading.

McReady I know to be as good a man as the war has received out of Brooklyn city.

first identified Whitman as the author in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

After three days of fighting, Union forces retreated to Chattanooga, where they were beseiged for several

weeks.; There were several skirmishes around Charleston throughout 1863, including two major battles

Both of these battles were Confederate victories.; George Gordon Meade, commander of the Army of the

I have written him in some of my letters what you were doing, with short extracts from your letters.

A lifelong friend of Jeff Whitman's, he became city engineer of Boston (1871–80) and completed his distinguished

career as chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1880–1908).

performed admirably in the Chattanooga campaign, but his tactical blunders at Chickamauga (September 1863) were

complained about this doctor (see Jeff's letter to Walt from October 15, 1863) George and Walt Whitman were

and sent to different parts of the State, and as our regt. was pretty well used up at that time, we were

rather a slick thing, old Burny did, up there  wasent it,  he fooled the rebs that time nicely)  they were

Only 6,000 soldiers in the Ninth Army were fit for duty, however, and the Fifty-First Regiment of New

Twenty-five hundred prisoners were taken.

A lifelong friend of Jeff Whitman's, he became city engineer of Boston (1871–80) and completed his distinguished

career as chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1880–1908).

Davis and his brother Joseph were descendants of a distinguished Massachusetts family (Edwin Haviland

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

& I think this quite important, for such the main body of East Tennesseans are, & are far truer Americans

(I mean the American ones to a man) all feel about the copperheads, they never speak of them without

goes, & as the darkey said there at Charleston when the boat run on a flat & the reb sharpshooters were

Weather—The President," "Signs of Next Session," "The Wounded in the Hospitals," "The Army Young and American

It is reprinted in Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

years of age—lads of 15 or 16 more frequent than you have any idea—seven-eighths of the Army are Americans

must understand like the diseased half-foreign collections under that name common at all times in cities—in

The brothers were descendants of a distinguished Massachusetts family.

Whitman, Sir, It was with exceeding interest that Mr Curtis & I listened to the letter you lately wrote

Some are in the spot, soil, air and the magnificent amplitude of the laying out of the City.

The city that launches the direct laws, the imperial laws of American Union and Democracy, to be henceforth

The city of wounded and sick, city of hospitals, full of the sweetest, bravest children of time or lands

Washington may be described as the city of army wagons also.

A SUNSET VIEW OF THE CITY.

first identified Whitman as the author in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

sculpted by Luigi Persico, the sculpture depicts the female figures of America, Justice, and Hope; they were

the affections, soothe them, brace them up, kiss them, discard all ceremony, & fight for them, as it were

The days in the hospitals were too serious for that" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New

October 4; reprinted in 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.

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!

Anne and Mary Wigglesworth were friends of Hannah Stevenson's and patrons of various benevolent organizations

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

A lifelong friend of Jeff's, he became city engineer of Boston (1871–80) and completed his distinguished

career as chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1880–1908).

See Thomas Jefferson Whitman's letter to Walt Whitman from April 16, 1860.

of Washington, the progress on the Capitol Dome, army ambulances, and the quality of light in the city

(Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman [Garden City, New York: Doubleday

happened for our dear times, when we first got acquainted, (we recked not of them as they passed,) were

I am writing this in Major Hapgood's office, fifth story, by a window that overlooks all down the city

exact thing at the exact moment, goes a great ways, to make gifts comfort & truly nourish these American

Stevenson, Anne and Mary Wigglesworth were patrons of various benevolent organizations in Boston.

Washington October 11 1863 Dear friend, Your letters were both received, & were indeed welcome.

deprived of] it—& O how gladly I would [bestow upon you a] liberal share, dear Abby, [if such a] thing were

In the hospitals among these American young men, I could not describe to you what mutual attachments

He was the publisher of the third edition of Leaves of Grass (see the letter from March 29, 1860) and

(I guess we, I & the wounded &c, were made for each other.)

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!

many pale as ashes, & all bloody—I distributed all my stores, gave partly to the nurses I knew that were

Our men engaged were Kilpatrick's cavalry.

They were in the rear as part of Meade's retreat—& the reb cavalry cut in between & cut them off & [attacked

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!

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!

So many men were wounded at this time that he had "to bustle round, to keep from crying."

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, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company

worst of my sickness she hardly left my room how often have I thought what would become of me if it were

any time I will give you a letter to him—I shouldn't wonder if the big men, with Fremont at head, were

front doors, with four locks & bolts on one, & three on the other—& a big bull-dog in the back yard—we were

" presumably Lincoln's first campaign song, and served as correspondent of the New York World from 1860

He published many volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to

They planned to build a railroad from Kansas City to the West.

Stedman was engaged by Hallett to edit The American Circular, which propagandized for the new railroad

John and Margaret Stilwell were the parents of James, John, and Julia Stilwell.

In the early 1860s, Andrew worked as a carpenter, and he enlisted briefly in the Union Army during the

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

the time—something considerably beyond mere hospital sketches—a book for sale perhaps in a larger American

reference to the future—bringing in persons, the President, Seward , Congress, the Capitol, Washington City

times to make them do it in military style—I have seen not a single officer that seemed to know American

textbooks on engineering and served as chief engineer of Brooklyn from 1869 to 1877 and president of the American

Walt Whitman's concerns about his mother's health were raised by Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman's October

man & his wife have written me, & asked me my address in Brooklyn, he said he had children in N Y city

to see a young man whom I love very much, who has fallen into deepest affliction, & is now in your city

deal for many weeks—he then went home to Barre—became worse—has now been sent from his home to your city—is

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!

i am at home now i got home after noon my famly is well i left washington wensday we got to Jursey city

am about old fassion. my leg mends slowly (about as it was when you wer hear) I have bin out in the city

nice shirts thear. 1 told them that they wer just the kind that I wanted—but they told me that they were

layed out for distributation amongst the diferant camps through the city. so I got non of them, & I

Dear friend Walt Not knowing what they were agoing to do with me until thursday last is my excuse for

early—I suppose it is not necessary to tell you how I voted—we have gained a great victory in this city—it

Well, dear comrades, it looks so different here in all this mighty city, every thing going with a big

the markets with all sorts of provisions—tens & hundreds of thousands of people every where, (the population

I have not lately made any requests of my friends for more thinking you perhaps were well supplied for

But you were asked for, and we all wished you present. Of course Mr. Eldridge & Mrs.

I know more about it than when you were here, and I assure you that you will be rendering a service not

Don't forget the three things you were to bring for my especial benefit.

entry for April 18, 1864, the Count referred to Whitman as among "the most original and genuine American

LeRoy Fischer, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 36 (1949–1950): 415–434, and the Dictionary of American

Cooper on March 27, 1860; the Mrs.

During the 1860s, Price and her family, especially her daughter, Helen, were friends with Whitman and

In 1860 the Price family began to save Walt's letters.

I do not know that I told you that both of my parents were dead but it is true and now Walt you will

Were it not for the great love for my wife I would stop until you returned but I still think I shall

only taught me how much I should miss you and also what a vacancy there would be in my affections were

Among the wounded were the Col and the Maj. of the 6th Wisconsin Regt. and quite a number of privates

a great many of them were very badly wounded, more so than any lot I have seen come in, eight of them

—Two of the Colonels and all of the rest of the commissioned officers that were able to be transfered

: were transfered to the Hospital at Georgetown, so we aint got so many shoulder strapes hear, but we

many a life for thear was a great many of our men killed & wounded The rebs that was in this ward were

Draper read it—they were all verry much pleased with it)— All of the old patients are a getting along

has bin so much talk about, this morning but if they are as long about getting it finished as they were

The pieces were Lucrezia, Sonnambula, &c. Nelly, I have seen Charles Howells.

really shrewd at bottom, & may prove more able to pick his way through the humbugs of the world than we were

Nelly, I have seen Mrs Price, but not to have much true & friendly talk, as there were many present.

O'Connor, who, with Eldridge and later Burroughs, were to be his close associates during the early Washington

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

Cooper on March 27, 1860; the Mrs.

According to Miller, Edward and Jesse Whitman were mentally handicapped.

out of the city—I shall give you a good big kiss when you come, so depend upon it."

The life here in the cities, & the objects, &c of most, seem to me very flippant & shallow somehow since

was one half of the Boston based abolitionist publishing firm Thayer and Eldridge, who put out the 1860

Every thing looks on the rush here in these great cities, more people, more business, more prosperity

income, where I could have you often with me, than all the dissipations & amusements of this great city—O

I do not know that I told you that both of my parents were dead but it is true and now, Walt, you will

Dear Walt, we long for you, William sighs for you, & I feel as if a large part of myself were out of

the city,—I shall give you a good big kiss when you come, so depend upon it.

Cooper on March 27, 1860; the Mrs.

O'Connor, who, with Eldridge and later Burroughs, were to be his close associates during the early Washington

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer and 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.

I agree with you Walt, that in time he must see right through those people, & if it were not for the

I quite envy you the Opera, I wish I were there with you for a week to go around.

Last Sunday we were out walking & met the Count, the first time since you left.

He immediately asked for you, & I told him where you were—he asked if you were coming back &c. & when

I wish that you were back here in your old room for my sake, for I miss you & shall.

Cooper on March 27, 1860; the Mrs.

During the 1860s, Price and her family, especially her daughter, Helen, were friends with Whitman and

In 1860 the Price family began to save Walt's letters.

entry for April 18, 1864, the Count referred to Whitman as among "the most original and genuine American

LeRoy Fischer, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 36 (1949–1950): 415–434, and the Dictionary of American

greatest interchange of magnetism human relations are capable of—I have told you how young & how American

Walt wrote me that Matty and all the rest of you were doing everything in the world that could be done

for Andrew and it is some consolation to know, that he died surrounded by friends and relatives, who were

There were ten carriages in the funeral train (Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, December 4,

He was very grateful for your interest, and his last words to me were—"tell him to write to me."

There seems a sort of hopelessness about this, and being unused to hospitals my feelings were far from

While he was with the Boston Post, he invented the American version of Mrs.

levels for a Mr Worthen who has been appointed to make an examination and report on supplying the city

As to Mother herself I should be perfectly willing—if she were so situated that it could be done—to take

—If such a thing were possible.

in New York in 1849 and served as sanitary engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Health of New York City

Louis Water Works, and developed a major reputation as a consultant (The National Cyclopaedia of American

He published several books on engineering and served as president of the American Society of Civil Engineers