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Thursday morning last before daylight one of our Regts, commenced to throw a Pontoon Bridge across the River

when the Rebel sharpshooters opened on them from the houses along the bank of the River, and our Artillery

morning our side made an advance driving the Rebel Skirmishers back about a mile and a half from the river

as we got up the Rebs cracked away at us, last night all the troops fell back on this side of the river

The Army commenced to move from here early on Tuesday morning last, going somewhere up the river, but

over here and eat us all up)  my oppinion is, that it was intended to throw a heavy force accross the river

or on the flank while we occupied their attention in front, with our Batteries on this side of the river

We have just come off Picket,  everything along the river and in the camp is just the same as when you

line, for more than a mile, so that I had to keep my Eyes open,  we were posted along the bank of the river

I dont know what the battle is called but it was about 5 miles from Germania Ford on the Rapidan River

Albany, from there to Buffalo, from there to Indianapolis, from there to Jeffersonville and crossed the River

The rebels still hold the other side of the river and apear to be in considerable force, but they keep

we had such favorable news from there at first, and Hooker managed things so nicely in crossing the river

find out that we had not only not, taken Richmond, but that Hooker had been obliged to recross the river

One thing I think is plain, in crossing the river and getting in the rear of Lee's army in the manner

fight a front of our force started in pursuit, but the rebels had set fire to a bridge which crosses a river

Our regiment marched slowly up to the river and as our boys were about lived out we spread our blankets

We are now encamped on the banks of the river about 2 miles from the city and we have things very comfortable

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

When New England was covered with extensive systems of river-powered textile mills, and even Emerson’

Considering midcentury environmental discussions, Whitman’s con- cluding call “Flow on, river!

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West.

and Fulton streets.In the early 1830s Whitman began spending more of his free time across the East River

Whitman celebrated Brooklyn's growth, especially as opposed to what he called the "Gomorra" across the river

Walt Whitman lived in the somewhat dreary and ugly suburb of Camden, New Jersey, across the Delaware river

evening (the moon and Jupiter in conjunction, and I 'speering' them all the way home especially on the river

process that inheres alsowithintheoriginalJacksoniantrope:“Asthebreezef’mthemountain sweeps over the river

Rivers, the author of a pamphlet en- HOMOSEXUALITY 193 titledWalt Whitman's Anomaly, 22Bertz wrote in

Rivers,Walt Whitman's Anomaly (London: GeorgeAllen, 1913), pp. 4f.

Rivers mentions Bertz's works favorably.

Like Bertz, Rivers attempted to provide "scientific" evidence. 23.

Bertz to Rivers, 12March 1913, 4:16. 24. Bertz to Rivers, 29 March 1913, 4:20. 25.

Whitman's nurse] I have been carriaged across to Philadelphia (how sunny & fresh & good look'd the river

mysteries of identity in "Song of Myself," of childhood in "There Was a Child Went Forth," of the rivers

ideal locale for a newspaper, for the city flourished with trade going up and down the Mississippi River

Located in the hollow of a three-sided bend of the Mississippi River as it reaches the Gulf of Mexico—hence

Already there is a shimmer of frozen rivers in the distance, a ripple of soft reverberations from vanished

growing industrialization and expansion, promoting the building of roads, railroads, and canal and river

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Lawrence River—but to what place I am not informed; but are supposed to be secreted in an Irish settlement

about five miles from the river.

Secretary of War to change the location of the Railroad and bridge across Rock Island and the Mississippi river

adjudge it fair and equitable that the Government should build a bridge across the main channel of the river

abstract, & other papers submitted to me relative to the title of "Seavey's Island," in the Piscataqua River

how you would too, sort of human Delaware river. With best love Herbert H Gilchrist.

power would suffer from the absence of those restraints which are to genius what its banks are to a river

even take one in my hand, without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

Evok- ing the chaotic scene of the night battle on the river as the “shock of ships”colliding amid the

,The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, and contrasted with his youthful journey back up the Ohio River

“Our rival Roses warred for Sway— / For Sway, but named the name of Right” in “The Battle of Stone River

Soldiers become an “Abrahamic river” in “The Muster,” the flashes of bayonets are northern lights in

Land of the spinal river, the Mississippi! Land of the Alle- ghanies Alleghanies ! Ohio's land!

pedition (my brother Jeffwith me,) through allthe Middle States,and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers

From across the river were also adozen figuresof young men do- ing handiwork ina rising literature,and

You of Camden can claim Walt Whitman foryour own, but you must letus of the bigger town acrossthe river

The' only time I ever saw Lincoln was hisdead face in Independence Hall over across the river.

base-ball, or breathe in drowsily— "for reasons," he would say—the refreshing air; or he is guided to the river

But before I sit down let me say I brought with me the regrets of some friends over the river—especially

Donaldson .— And I brought with me from an old gentleman on the Allegheny river a bottle of whiskey which

Stedman .— "Life, after all, is not like a river—although it is the fashion to say that it is—for that

And Whitman's poetry is like the river: nothing of it more tranquil, nothing broader and deeper, than

We think of you at Concord as often as we look out over the meadows across the river, which you were

I have never lived away from a big river." Took up Brinton's suggestion that W.'

a river, the sky the sky.

—first to Bonsall's house for the Book Maker—then across the river for conferences at different places

It is almost a part of Philadelphia where I live on the opposite side of the Delaware river.

I mailed it over the river later on.

How had the river appeared?—and so on.

"The river was there—the great city opposite.

Denver is phenomenal for its background—its ample background: not much of a river there, but a river

And I know best of all the rivers—the grand, sweeping, curving, gently undulating rivers. Oh!

Rivers! Oh the rivers!

but grand and manly and full of thunder and lightning.The robins are just here, and the ice on the river

Parkhurst across the river, has studied Millet some and lectures about him, illustrating the talks.

magazines—that of porcelain, fine china, dainty curtains, exquisite rugs—never a look of flowing rivers

"I drove up as far as Pea Shore—right up to the river, halting there for half an hour, looking over the

Some one in that discussion over the river presented my 'standpoint'—but suppose I have no conscious

It is fine scenery around Washington—plenty of hills, and a noble river.

but two things now from which I derive any satisfaction—Julian and that bit of land up there on the river

It was a tablet placed on the First Unitarian Church, across the river. There were speeches by C.C.

country through which the Continental Road passes in the States, (then names,) the fauna, mountains, rivers

I said: "Across the river for a long walk." He cried: "I quite envigesenvy you!"

said: "If I get out as the weather grows milder I'll want to see these wonders: I'll get across the river

I was down by the river, loafing some. Then went across on the boat. "Ah!"

He still lives in Mickle Street, Camden, in his little old wooden house, not far from the Delaware river

Who could share with me the thought of that evening's ride across the river?

Went over the river with Donaldson, who had brought W. fruit and wine and taken away with him the ten

I spoke of the driver of a wagon on the Chestnut Street hill by the river: "his horse fell down—could

envy you—or at least count you happy—in your own house, and with your farm, in sight, or close to a river

I described the trip across the river this evening: the new moon— "a thin semicircular strip of a thing

of slender cloud overhead: the water full of mobile reflections: the electric lights up along the river's

The electric lights are new since my time: there were never any along the river's front as I knew it.

I was not quite a week on the river. I slept in my boat or under it all the time.

know him—know his name, too: he rejoices in the unique and saving name—though the best hand on the river—the