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discouragements like a noble old ship—My brother Andrew is bound for another world—he is here the greater part

Giuseppini Medori sang Lucrezia Borgia on November 2; see Whitman's account of this opera in a letter

in Baltimore until Thursday evening then took the 9 oclock train for Harrisburg arived at H. about 2

morning I arrived at my uncles at McFarland Station I stayd there two weeks, then started for another part

Democrats to vote right this time, however as the result was all right we argue that you did your part

in Brooklyn, and the couple had four children—Arthur, Helen, Emily, and Henry (who died in 1852, at 2

is a tall & handsome lady, & her actions are so graceful as she moves about the stage, playing her part

Cavalry, was admitted to the hospital on August 2, 1863, with a wound in the left leg, which gangrened

Vandemark to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1863

Grier, ed., Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:

As to the worry part, I never think of that  A man with a wife like I have got cant worry even if he

volumes of the Pacific Railroad reports (see Thomas Jefferson Whitman's letter to Walt Whitman from April 2,

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

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

much of it i told him i would make him some more to morrow and not put any salt in it i gave him the 2

the book is very rapid—is a book that can be read by the five or ten minutes at (being full of small parts

I send George papers now & then—Mother, one of your letters contains part of my letter to the Union,

street, not far from Pennsylvania avenue, (the big street here,) & not far from the Capitol—it is in 3d story

for rooms, I went in to see a couple of furnished rooms about like our two in Wheelers houses (2d story

are not so very dear, very much the same as in Brooklyn—dear mother, Jeff wrote in his letter latter part

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America , 2

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

Mother, I go down every day looking for a letter from you or Jeff—I had two from Jeff latter part of

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

Though there was little excuse for delay, Whitman remained in Washington until November 2.

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

husband & I are great friends too—Well I will close—the rain is pouring, the sky leaden—it is between 2

from Mr Kirkwood for the use of the "sogers"  The enclosed $8 is contributed thus $5 by Moses Lane $2

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

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

Brooklyn Daily Union of September 22, 1863 (The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, [1921], 2:

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

It has become an old story. The suffering ones cling to me, poor children, very close.

Anne Wigglesworth, & to your own sister, Margaret, that as I feel it a privilege myself to be doing a part

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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,

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).

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

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:

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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:

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