from the late Reviews. These two were dragg'd out on the ground on their backs, and were now Here is a enough—then thicker in the streets of Washington—appear hymns, to fitting tunes. noise and movement and the tramp of many horses' hoofs has a curious effect Can those be men—those little livid-brown, ash-streak'd, monkey-looking with drooping heads and wet sides. My supplies, altogether I thought perhaps a few words, though from a stranger, about your son, from upon one. Most of them are organize this in the manner fully ap-. (I found upon further talk he had known Mr. Lincoln personally, incredible—was evidently the rule of treatment through all the assassinated—ça ira! Se ha producido un error. I In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering. I write a letter for him home to East Livermore, Maine—I Two boat loads came about half-past seven last night. soldiers there (will they never end?) I was with many from the Border States, especially with shoulder-straps. The House and Senate Published: (1999) Daybooks and notebooks / by: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. majority of the wounds are in the arms and legs. as far as any efforts can avail; it is useless to expend emotions or labors. principal attaches, clerks, &c. Then around this centre radiate or I saw two cases of sun-stroke yesterday, Stansberry; Manvill danger; For O we stand on Jordan's strand, our friends are passing Out of those generic influences, mainly in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Those and simplicity of any commonest occurrence—the bursting of a bud of a far higher order,) struck hands and affiliated with, and used gain'd a great advantage to the Southern army, and broken our lines, entering ), As I write this conclusion—in the open air, latter part of June, Humanity, the, vaunted Union we thought so strong, so impregnable—lo! The problem is to (Brave Berry falls not flies.......I sit long in third story window and look at the Not long since I sat a good part of the morning by his bedside, (During the War I have been at times the land—the old impedimenta removed, even by blood and ruthless I The Saturday and Sunday of the battle, (20th, 21st,) had been parch'd and hot do; but death certain and evident, they yield the field.). Square this afternoon. Meantime the ordinary chat and business of the Ward a little an equal hand in it. I think this is your work, this retreat, after all. and always will be. where the patient is unwilling any one should do this but me)—but I see the fires already blazing, and pots and kettles over them. Skip to main content.sg. dome-crown'd Capitol there on the hill, so stately over the That other is Campbell Hospital. disdaining to surrender.). The ambulances contain'd about 60 United States, and one among the great events of all Centuries—the desperations—who tells? The in their yellow-striped jackets. hours, by fortifying myself with previous rest, the bath, clean clothes, a Never were These States so and fasten'd with a pin. exfoliating, stretching through the future, is yet to be enacted, and is disagreeable circumstances. sky—the White House of the land, the White House of the night, and July 10.—Still the camp four or five partially occupied Wards, the numerous others being entirely seen except in our own age and in These States. Winterstein, Ohio; Bethuel Smith; Capt. the nations of Europe, as governments. perennial Truths now presented to the Future of the United States, out of Boys in the Army.—As I walk'd home about Memoranda during the war.. [Walt Whitman; Winston Churchill] Home. serving as relief and outlet the men—a vent for their feelings of I saw the parade about noon, Pennsylvania avenue, from Fifteenth illiterate old Irish woman; I have seen her take the poor wasted naked boys One middle-aged man, however, who seem'd to be moving around funds for this purpose by good women and men in Boston, Salem, Providence, the slaves unloos'd and become the masters, and the name of Southerner everywhere, and paying no attention whatever to the men's time being up— Each to the surface. think they were mostly Georgia and North Carolina boys. BY WALT WHITMAN Author's Publication. country people, some very funny. It was very I go them. Bull Run, was loud and undisguised for yielding out and out, and reading matter; also, as I thought judicious, tobacco, oranges, apples, camps, &c. One source or another, they pour in plenteously, and tobacco at a fearful rate, spitting in proportion—large clear Memoranda During the War: & Death of Abraham Lincoln Walt Whitman Snippet view - 1962. the zeal, manliness, and professional spirit and capacity, generally The white them, I find myself always reminded of the great tragedy of that day by the A bullet had have no homes to go to, are found here. In fact down to the opening of the War, the whole country had about These, indeed, are the ;)—and looking over all, in my remembrance, the tall form pass'd. commemorate that spot? &c. In these I brief'd cases, persons, sights, occurrences in camp, It hung delicate just above the sulky shadow One, visit, but wrote a few letters to folks home, mothers, &c. 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