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Brooklyniana, No. 6

  • Date: 11 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thomas Kirk, William Hartshorne, the veteran of United States printers Early type-setting experience.

Hartshorne, William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Whitman.

We have spoken of William Hartshorne—he was the veteran printer of the United States.

Of William Hartshorne, for the fifteen or twenty years previous to his death, the old man was often to

Brooklyniana, No. 5.---Continued.

  • Date: 11 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In 1908 this was replaced by a 149-foot tall column designed by Stanford White.

The monument to Major General William Jenkins Worth, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American

Annotations Text:

In 1908 this was replaced by a 149-foot tall column designed by Stanford White.; All three of these monuments

Brooklyniana, No. 7

  • Date: 18 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Kerosine.......... 200,000 Saleratus......... 50,000 Starch............ 30,000 Vinegar........... 12,000 White

lead........ 1,250,000 Whiting........... 68,000 Lamps, lanterns, & gas fixtures. 125,000 Stoves....

The White Lead factory gives employment to two hundred and twenty-five men.

The Brooklyn White Lead Works, established in 1822, was the oldest white lead factory in the state of

Annotations Text:

.; The Brooklyn White Lead Works, established in 1822, was the oldest white lead factory in the state

Brooklyniana, No. 8

  • Date: 25 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

was of an ancient primitive kind, very staid, without any cheering, but then a plentiful waving of white

number of "old revolutionaries" on the ground, and along the line of march; and their bent forms and white

Brooklyniana, No. 10

  • Date: 8 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 9 February 1862

  • Date: February 9, 1862
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

gun  another lay badly wounded  a few feet further in the bushes lay an old man with beard perfectly white

just dying  the top of his head being shot off  a little way from these we met a dozen rebels with a white

Brooklyniana, No. 11

  • Date: 15 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

Brooklyniana, No. 13.

  • Date: 1 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There, too, is Rockaway beach, so white and silvery, calm and pleasant, enough, perhaps, with its long-rolling

Silas S. Soule to Walt Whitman, 12 March 1862

  • Date: March 12, 1862
  • Creator(s): Silas S. Soule
Text:

Canby had only eight hundred white men and one Reg of Mexicans under the renowned Kit Carson .

Sibley had three thousand men our white men done all the fighting for the Mexicans broke and ran at the

miles farther before they slept and they did  they started off singing the Star spangled banner, Red White

Brooklyniana, No. 15

  • Date: 15 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as we write, remember the scene, now more than thirty-five years ago—the group of bent, thin-faced, white-haired

Sale, William A. Sale was one of the builders of Old St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn.

William Furman served as county judge before Leffert Lefferts. Secretary—Freeman Hopkins.

William Quinn. The African M. E.

Church was the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for which William Quinn was the first and only church-planting

City Photographs

  • Date: 16 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hammersley, who served an equally long time; William Hammersley was one of the earliest physicians and

It is a large apartment, very clean of course, white-washed, with high-ceilings, well-lighted, perhaps

City Photographs—No. III

  • Date: 29 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Colden, the Hones, Whitehead and Valentine Hicks, William and James Jauncey, the Kortwrights, Livingstons

Dunlap, William Dunlap (1766–1839) was a painter who was also famous for writing History of the Rise

Brooklyniana, No. 17.

  • Date: 5 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was rumored that he converted President William Henry Harrison. His son John N.

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Whitman.

40, The old Log Cabin to which Whitman refers was likely part of the 1840 "log cabin campaign" of William

Udall, William M.

Brooklyniana, No.18

  • Date: 19 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

elected Mayor of the city, and he held a number of other offices before his death in 1854. with his white

City Photographs—No. VI

  • Date: 3 May 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

small size, opened in 1835. down in the square—on account of the real genius of the acting in it of William

William Sefton and John Sefton were brothers.

William was the first stage manager of the Franklin Theatre.

City Photographs—No. VII

  • Date: 17 May 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Here is plenty of room, and the roof of canvas, red, white and blue, makes it all cool and nice for summer

Brooklyniana, No. 35

  • Date: 30 August 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In 1636, at the request of Charles I, the Plymouth Company transferred to William Alexander, Earl of

The snow-white floor was sprinkled with fine sand, which was curiously stroked with a broom into fantastic

first carpet said to have been introduced into the colony was found in the house of the pirate, Kidd, William

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1862

  • Date: August 31, 1862
  • Creator(s): W. W. Thayer | William Wilde Thayer
Text:

.— Yours Truly William W. Thayer Please direct your letter to me Boston Post Office.

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1862

Brooklyniana, No. 35.—Continued.

  • Date: 6 September 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Looms, too, were in common use, and piles of home-spun cloth and snow-white linen attested the industry

An Old Landmark Gone

  • Date: 9 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

In time, it too gave place, and was also torn down, to make room for the present white marble church

William Hartshorne, William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Walt Whitman.

Brooklyniana, No. 37

  • Date: 11 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He was an independent, God-worshipping man, and exercised great influence for good over both whites and

Brooklyniana, No. 38

  • Date: 25 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

colors, and stones of every conceivable shape, hue, and destiny, with shells, large boulders of a pure white

Brooklyniana, No. 39

  • Date: 1 November 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

We hove in sight of the steeples and white paint of home, and soon after, the spirits we had served deserted

[scene in the woods on]

  • Date: 1863–1864
Text:

homemade notebook which contains, among other notes, an account of the retreat following the battle of White

Walt Whitman by Alexander Gardner, 1863

  • Date: 1863
  • Creator(s): Gardner, Alexander
Text:

Whitman by Alexander Gardner, 1863 Whitman referred to this as "one of the several portraits which William

Walt Whitman to Martha Whitman, 2–4 January 1863

  • Date: January 2–4, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A friend of mine, William D.

Our Brooklyn Boys in the War

  • Date: 05 January 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Matthew Partridge, William Gill, DEATHS OF BROOKLYN MEN.

Ralph Waldo Emerson to William H. Seward, 10 January 1863

  • Date: January 10, 1863
  • Creator(s): Ralph Waldo Emerson
Text:

William H. Seward , | Secretary of State. Ralph Waldo Emerson to William H. Seward, 10 January 1863

Walt Whitman to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 January 1863

  • Date: January 17, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

America, already brought to Hospital in her fair youth—brought and deposited here in this great, whited

Walt Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 13 February 1863

  • Date: February 13, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

elaborately wrought balustrades, columns, & steps—all of the most beautiful marbles I ever saw, some white

Walt Whitman to John Swinton, 23 February 1863

  • Date: February 23, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Is William in New York—or where? The article is to be paid for. Walt.

John Swinton to Walt Whitman, 25 February 1863

  • Date: February 25, 1863
  • Creator(s): John Swinton | Horace Traubel
Text:

My brother William sailed for Port Royal ten days ago—to be present at the attack on Charleston—if it

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 8 March 1863

  • Date: March 8, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

guard-house is a nasty, lousy dungeon without light—in it was a nigger with his wrists in manacles, and four white

Walt Whitman to Thomas P. Sawyer, 21 April 1863

  • Date: April 21, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Tom, you tell the boys of your company there is an old pirate up in Washington, with the white wool growing

Will W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 7 May 1863

  • Date: May 7, 1863
  • Creator(s): Will W. Wallace
Text:

a fine house across the way from Hospt No 3, where the Surgn Steward and women stop it has a large white

John J. Barker to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1863

  • Date: June 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): John J. Barker
Text:

unted an wee have got the pras of the finest regment in these pats My Capten Skaggs is ded brother william

John J. Barker to Walt Whitman, 19 June 1863

  • Date: June 19, 1863
  • Creator(s): John J. Barker
Text:

Jest like a privet and as study as a Jug JC sebrig is fist lutenent B B Jones is a lutenent brother william

from Hookers command

  • Date: 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

men badly burnt by explosion of caissons &c —wrote a number of letters for Ohio & Indiana m en Wm Williams

Armory May 12 William Williams co F. 27th Indiana wounded seriously in shoulder— a he lay naked to the

Williams Lafayette Tippecanoe co. Indiana Noah Laing bed 36 Ward I Mrs. Edwin Burt.

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 30 June 1863

  • Date: June 30, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Fourteenth st., the cavalry after him—I really think it would be safer for him just now to stop at the White

Samuel S. Frayer to Lorenzo Thomas, 21 July 1863

  • Date: July 21, 1863
  • Creator(s): Samuel S. Frayer
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 23 July 1863

  • Date: July 23, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

The skirmish was kept up untill about daylight on the morning of the 17th when a white flag was run up

William E. Vandemark to Walt Whitman, 31 July 1863

  • Date: July 31, 1863
  • Creator(s): William E. Vandemark
Text:

am able to come No more at present Good by answer by return mail from a friend and ever shall be William

Walt Whitman to Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Haskell, 10 August 1863

  • Date: August 10, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

told me he was at the regimental hospital at a place called Baltimore Corners not many miles from White

Washington in the Hot Season

  • Date: 16 August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

L INCOLN never reposes at the White House during the hot season, but has quarters at a healthy location

there, (I think the light is extra-powerful here,) besides a large effect of green, varied with the white

We have put the draft through, have conscribed a goodly lot of whites, blacks and Secessionists; and

some badly wounded—and, perhaps, never to rise thence,) the cots themselves, with their drapery of white

William E. Vandemark to Walt Whitman, 17 August 1863

  • Date: August 17, 1863
  • Creator(s): William E. Vandemark
Text:

me know what he says about the exstention I will close now good by from a friend and well wishes William

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 8 September 1863

  • Date: September 8, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

have any thing but a cup of tea & some bread or crackers, (first rate tea though with milk & good white

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 18 September 1863

  • Date: September 18, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A pause, the crowd drops away, a white bandage is bound around and under the jaw, the propping pillows

limpsy head falls down, the arms are softly placed by the side, all composed, all still,—and the broad white

From Washington

  • Date: 22 September 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From late June through the middle of October 1863, forces under Union General William S.

trees, through all the streets and in the well-kept public grounds, and through this green, the milky white

Walt Whitman to William S. Davis, 1 October 1863

  • Date: October 1, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman to William S. Davis, 1 October 1863

Letter from Washington

  • Date: 4 October 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I shall always identify Washington with that huge and delicate towering bulge of pure white, where it

Then other varieties; there will be a procession of wagons, bright-painted and white-topped, marked "

Washington being full of great white architecture, takes through the Summer a prevailing color-effect

of white and green.

White canvas coverings arch them over, and each wagon has its six-mule team.

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