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I have distributed part of it in Ward 6, (Dr.

their barracks they lie—in those boarded Washington hospital barracks, whitewashed outside and in, one story

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

enough, present and future, to attend to—but since it has come, I shall use it—I distributed between 2

On January 1–2, 1863, he implored Walt to urge George to quit the army and thus to spare the life of

Concord Massachusetts 10 January 2, 1863 Dear Sir, Mr Walt Whitman, of New York, writes me that he is

seeking employment in the public service in Washington, & perhaps some application on his part has already

), 5:302-303, hypothetically reconstructs the two letters which he had not seen, and dates them "c. 2?

Chase, however, kept the letter because he wanted an Emerson autograph; see Trowbridge, My Own Story

very quiet, and mind their own business, and we do the same,  I dont see much signs of a move on our part

I rather think the greater part of the fighting for our Regt is over.

marching down from camp by regiments, to do our picket, and the incessant efforts of the men in all parts

I have, for this letter, some items, a part of the general history of the war, which I think you will

It will be remembered that this regiment formed part of the original Burnside expedition.

of Northern Virginia and Northwestern Maryland, and taking an active and important part during that

A PARTING REMARK.

Washington, Friday morning, Jan. 2, 1863.

and all—What distressing news this is of the loss of the Monitor — Walt Whitman to Martha Whitman, 2–

Whitman related the harrowing story of Holmes's illness in the New York Times, February 26, 1863 (in

According to his diary, Whitman wrote a (lost) Letter to Vliet on May 2, 1863 (Glicksberg, 133).

.00031xxx.00502A Night Battle in the late War1863prose1 leafhandwritten; This is a brief note, dated May 2,

Whitman reprinted parts of Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers in 'Tis But Ten Years Since, New York Weekly

Though parts of Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers were partially reprinted in the New York Weekly Graphic

Whitman later used a part of the published article (a part that has no parallel in the present manuscript

Howell1863prosehandwritten1 leaf; This manuscript contains notes on the story of a young soldier, Benjamin

history of the war and offers the rationale for his decision to record a "few glimpses" of "the Hospital part

Whitman used many of the scences from Roberts's story in the poem, A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and

1Diaries, 1863–1864, hospital notebooks (2 vols.)loc.00485xxx.00502xxx.00890xxx.00891[Hospitals Culpepper

majority of the merchants and prosperous mechanics do not appear in their columns— indeed rarely in their 2

run around and look to all intermediate agencies for a situation.— As to And among the commercial part

—Not a few of them are really good looking; although, as a general thin k g , the best part of their

that I have lived for eight or nine days amid such scenes as the camps furnish, and had a practical part

[New York: Rowan and Littlefield, 1906-1996], 2:157), and, upon his arrival on the following day, took

Infantry while between them and the Town from which we had to advance is an open plain swept on all parts

See William Rounseville Alger, The Life of Edwin Forrest (New York: Lippincott, 1877), 2:649.

minutes, and shortly afterwards we made a solemn procession down to the water, each man carrying a part

See the Biblical story (Luke 9) of Jesus providing a feast for 5000 people with five loaves of bread

They told love stories, and ghost stories, and sang country ditties; but the night and the scene mellowed

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 319–321.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

See William Rounseville Alger, The Life of Edwin Forrest (New York: Lippincott, 1877), 2:649.; Julius

Caesar's betrayal and murder took place at the foot of Pompey's Statue in Rome.; See the Biblical story

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 319–321.

There are—so I am told—a few Indians more toward the western part of Easthampton, who live nearer to

other to the most deadly combats—we tore various past passions into tatters See Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2,

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 316–318.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

their soldiers on the eve of battle in Shakespeare's Richard III, Act 5.; See Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2,

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 316–318.

Whitman is playing here on Hamlet's line in Act 2, Scene 2 of Hamlet : "I am but mad north-north-west

: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." and the minister laughed and told stories

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 312–316.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

Whitman is playing here on Hamlet's line in Act 2, Scene 2 of Hamlet: "I am but mad north-north-west:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 312–316.

Demarest with reference to the Brooklyn of former days, "most of which he saw, and part of which he was

the hand of Washington himself on one of his visits here, and had lived among men who took an active part

The demolition took place in the early part of the present century, some fifty-five or sixty years since

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 306–309.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 306–309.

Sunday Sept 7th and moved by easy marches, untill Thursday Sept 11th when our advance came up with part

After assuring ourselvs that they were gone for good, we stacked arms and I took a walk over our part

In some parts of the feild the enemys dead lay in heaps and in a road for nearly a quarter of a mile

range of hills where they were protected by stone fences, and the 3d Brigade of our Division and a part

is on the right of our Co and both in Co K who was next to us on the left, was hit  one was killed  2

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 306–309.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 306–309.

and intelligence here, and the necessities of their occupations did not prevent them from devoting a part

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 304-306.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 304-306.

we lay on the hill to see hundreds of men leave their regiments without being hurt at all and some 2

Floyd Stovall, ed., Walt Whitman: The Prose Works 2 vols.

and asserting "I love the poem" ("Thoughts and Things" New-York Saturday Press [January 14, 1860], 2)

At the very first, the houses were mostly one story huts of logs.

The northern part of the island furnished abundance of stone.

The children and negroes grouped in the spacious chimney corners, cracking nuts and telling stories by

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 300–304.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 300–304.

(Direct your letters Burnside Expedition Newport News)  part of our forces are still at Newbern.

(8–3) [Boston] May 26, [186]2 Whitman, poet, Brooklyn, N.Y.

There is a stage, with theatrical and lyric performances; also a brass band, in another part of the house

suddenly beholds (although positively invisible to me and the rest) a mortal row over in a distant part

Up around the one story, toward the roof, along the pillars and gas-fixings, &c., are trained slender

The news from New Orleans and in fact from all parts of the Union keeps us all in good spirits so that

eight rifled guns, so we are about ready to advance, if there is any advanceing to be done in this part

veracious sketch of the route we are sketching, there ought to enter, and form a good constituent part

And how he used to play such parts as Pythias , to Forrest's Damon ?

Morrell, 1866), 2:64. Thanks to Mary L.

Morrell, 1866), 2:64. Thanks to Mary L.

. — Truly yours, Fred New York May 2/62 Fred B. Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 2 May 1862

Among other points of interest in the neighborhood we are speaking of was an ancient two-story house,

The large edifice, the eastern part of [the] Military Garden, was put up about 1826 or '7, by Mr.

These gardens, let us here remark, were a conspicuous feature in Brooklyn during the earlier part of

Those stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 296–300.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 296–300.

It is, perhaps (although you ain't sure), a four or five story brick-fronted house, pierced with windows

Yet the complexion of this part of the Bowery is not invariably that of conscious innocence.

Whoever was present at the Branch, or indeed anywhere in the lower part of the Bowery the night after

Wishing to make my parting bow to this worthy old establishment, by bringing things up to date, I took

I shook hands with them all round at parting, and I know we all felt as if it were the separation of

She brings illustrated and other papers, books of stories, little comforts in the way of eating and drinking

Only 2 deaths, however, from suicide.

This is considered a part of the establishment, being under the same control, Governors, and financial

(Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, [New York: Rowan and Littlefield, 1961], 2:201).

But we must not forget the old one-story house on the east upper corner of Nassau street, with the tough

The old Log Cabin, famous in the days of '40, The old Log Cabin to which Whitman refers was likely part

Merceins, Stantons, Suydams, Baches, Tredwells, Carters, Hickses, Schencks, Schoonmakers, Smiths, Storys

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 292–296.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 292–296.

Directors and a few warm friends of the project put their hands in their own pockets and raised a great part

The extreme northern part is allotted to colored persons. The south wing is four stories in height.

.. 145 Italy....    3 Germany............. 87 China....    3 Sweden & Norway..... 80 Finland....    2

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 288–292.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 288–292.

In a former part of my account, Dr. Wright Post's name was mentioned.

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 2:268.

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 2:25. —and later ones of the great Kean.

and women of New York, to churches, tract societies, missions for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts

For my part, as I stand in the presence of these fine and eloquent faces, I acknowledge without demur

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 2:268.; Sarah Siddons was another actress praised by Whitman in

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 2:25.; It is unclear which Kean Whitman refers to here.

In the new south part of the Hospital are the sailors' wards, &c.

This—as I think I have mentioned before—is in a little two-story building, standing by itself, between

These being collected together in the upper story of the building, with the accumulations of past curators

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

We have taken quite a number of canon, and to day a part of our force leaves here to take another small

thirty thousand men, women and children, either out of our own city or concentred here from other parts

The little two story building to the left is the place for preparations in morbid and healthy anatomy

In the second story is the Museum, valuable to students and amateurs.

In the next cot is Frank Osborne, a young fireman, belonging to No. 2 steamer; he was knocked down while

Our land force was about 10,000 men with 2 batteries of artilary, and the fighting part of the fleet

was killed. one Captain wounded (probaly mortaly) one Leiut killed. one Leiut had a leg taken off and 2

After they retreated a part of our force followed them up but they had set fire to a bridge about 3/8

breastworks leading from the river, away back in the woods I dont know how far   I followed them about 2

and I feel just like giveing you a good scolding, but I guess I will wait untill I get home,   I recd 2

This was the spot occupied, until 1858, by the three-story edifice known as the Apprentices' Library.

Clustering around the last-named establishment, and forming part of its authentic records, are so many

The County Clerk's apartments were in the same edifice, and in the upper story the Judges of several

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 283–288.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 283–288.

transcribe, however, an account of one of the largest fires that occurred in Brooklyn in the earliest part

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 278–283.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 278–283.

great nation of the Lenni-Lenape, or Delawares, of which stock the aborigines of this region were a part

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 274–278.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 274–278.

Exchange building was quite a large edifice at the corner of Fulton and Cranberry streets, and the third story

Sheriffs' administrations, and of the residences of many of them and their families in the dwelling part

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 270–274.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 270–274.