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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
i am at home now i got home after noon my famly is well i left washington wensday we got to Jursey 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!
man & his wife have written me, & asked me my address in Brooklyn, he said he had children in N Y city
Walt Whitman's concerns about his mother's health were raised by Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman's October
textbooks on engineering and served as chief engineer of Brooklyn from 1869 to 1877 and president of the American
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
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.
worst of my sickness she hardly left my room how often have I thought what would become of me if it were
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
So many men were wounded at this time that he had "to bustle round, to keep from crying."
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!
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
(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!
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
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.
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).
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
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
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
& 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
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.
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.
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!
Well, Thu, it seems as though they were moving again in front—Pleasonton has been advancing & fighting—he
had all the cavalry moving, had quite a fight last Sunday, driving Stuart —a good many wounded were
Washington theaters were featuring "ghosts" in September 1863.
Washington September 15 1863 Dear Mother Your letters were very acceptable—one came just as I was putting
the very hour of death or just the same when they recover, or partially recover—I never knew what American
young men were till I have been in the hospitals— Well, mother, I have got writing on—there is nothing
on September 7, 1863, that, as he wrote, orders for his regiment to move to join Burnside's forces were
Most of its members were Irish.
Comprising over half the city's foreign-born population of 400,000, out of a total of about 814,000,
the Irish were the main source of cheap labor, virtually its peon class.
to exist" American Heritage, 10 (June 1959), 48.
In our ward the screws were put rather tight, out of a little over 3000 names they drew 1056, nearly
They have their own ways (not outside eclat, but in manly American hearts, however rude, however undemonstrative
30th with the $10 came all right, and I am sory I put you to the trouble of going to the bank, as we were
I last wrote you, from Covington where we were haveing first rate easy times and fine liveing.
We have been expecting orders to march every day, and this morning we were ordered to be ready to move
at any moment, with 3 days rations in Haversacks, but a few minutes ago the orders to be ready, were
not likely to meet with much resistance at Knoxville) It seemed to be the general opinion that we were
Knoxville in order to draw General Longstreet's army farther away from General Bragg's forces, which were
By September 9, 1863, he had occupied that city and Bragg's forces had removed to Chickamauga.
One might assume, then, that both letters were written on Wednesday, September 2, if it were not for
Perhaps both letters were written on Thursday, September 3, 1863.
See Thomas Jefferson Whitman's letter to Walt Whitman from April 3, 1860.
I feel thankful In our ward the screws were put rather tight. out of a little over 3000 names they drew
Tom Geere, Tom McEvoy, Pat Hughes two or three in Amermans house, were all hit.
It seems to have avoided the Water Works, only one or two out of the whole 40 or 50 employed were hit
while in Husted & Carls store 7 out of 10 were taken.
One might assume, then, that both letters were written on Wednesday, September 2, if it were not for
Perhaps both letters were written on Thursday, September 3, 1863.
, 1860, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman noted that she was "in debt to ammerman about 10 dollars" (Trent).
He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.
Washington September 5 1863 Dear Nat I wish you were here if only to enjoy the bright & beautiful weather
ways—I mean the way often the amputated, sick, sometimes dying soldiers cling & cleave to me as it were
and he went away without taking any thing he was in a waggon wagon with jim C ornell and Buckly they were
had any letter from hannah nor mary willy saw mary when he was at greenport Greenport she said they were
Louisa also mentions the drafts in Brooklyn: military drafts were held on August 31, September 1, and
James "Jimmy" and George "Georgy" were Nancy and Andrew's sons, and Nancy was pregnant with Andrew, Jr
"Sis" is Manahatta "Hattie" Whitman (1860–1886), the elder daughter of Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman
Hattie and Jessie were both favorites of their uncle Walt.
She and Jeff had two daughters, Manahatta (b. 1860) and Jessie Louisa.
receive your letter [This letter is currently lost] yesterday and was glad to heer from yo and yo were
House during the hot season, but has quarters at a healthy location, some three miles north of the city
his wife, toward the latter part of the afternoon, out in barouche, on a pleasure ride through the city
They passed me once very close, and I saw the President in the face fully, as they were moving slow,
Capitol front is finished, with the splendid entrance to the Senate and Representative wings, the city
The City Railroad Company loses some horses every day.
Brignoli" because of his difficult first name, eventually became "Dear Old Brig" to American audiences
libretto in the opera Clari, which debuted in London in 1823, the song quickly became familiar to many Americans
We were paid this afternoon up to the 1st of July and tomorrow I shall send you by Express, at least
command is in Virginia so I suppose Andrew did not go to Newbern, We had pretty hard fare while we were
York, and its almost enough to make a fellow ashamed of being a Yorker, the first accounts we saw were
could hardly believe, that a thing of that kind would be alowed allowed to get such headway in the City
Wood Gov Seymour and a few more of the wire pullers and strung them up to one of the trees in the city
During the period of July 13–15, 1863, the city was disrupted by riots over the application of the 1863
The disturbance began in the Ninth Ward and spread quickly to other parts of the city.
They envisioned that while they were compelled to fight to free Negroes from slavery, that same group
The city's police force was unable to quell the riots, and order was restored to the city only when Union
Fernando Wood, mayor of New York at this time, and his brother Benjamin Wood, both Tammany leaders, were
would do—the ground seems to be slipping more & more from under their feet—Lew, the Union & the American
Relations between the two families were sometimes strained; see Whitman's letter from March 22, 1864.
Well, Lewy, the presentation to Dr Bliss came off last Saturday evening—it was in ward F—the beds were
the sick put in other wards—the room cleaned, hung with greens &c., looked very nice—the instruments were
I took a view of them, they were in four cases, & looked very fine—in the evening they were presented—speeches
were made by one & another—there was a band of music &c—I stopt about 20 minutes, but got tired, & went
off among the boys that were confined to their beds—the room was crowded, & every thing passed off right