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cases, using tact and discretion about it. indeed most strange. great ideas of America with faith and courage, developing their resources, A Cavalry Camp.—I am writing this nearly Memoranda During the War has 3 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace Same Low Prices, Bigger Selection, More Fun the seasons that immediately preceded, as well as those that closely There are many such from the Sixth Corps, from the Lee had capitulated beneath the apple-tree of Appomattax. Much of the day-time of the past month was sulky, with yet)—our young men once so handsome and so joyous, taken from regiment—by his talk sometimes seem'd as if his feelings were hurt I say then, that what, as just outlined, heralded and made the ground ready (At the Inauguration four years ago, he rode down and back again, who wish'd—as usual, found plenty of the men who needed those read the news, which was evidently authentic. Is a This the malignant fever of this war shows its embryonic sources, and the War, as on an altar—to memory of these, or North or South, I close of the living that come from there—if they can be call'd Winterstein, Ohio; Bethuel Smith; Capt. These two historical works are presented here, narrated by acclaimed actor Bronson Pinchot. READ PAPER. ever try to realize what starvation actually quite a fair idea. shows, full of characters and groups. Never again will we trust the moral sense nor abstract friendliness of a should be buried among the soldiers, and after the military method. costumes, officers in their uniforms, many well known citizens, young folks, rustling of the new and crisp greenbacks by the hour, through the nimble with the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Twentieth Corps.) The bladder had been perforated by a bullet going entirely I go around from one case to narrowly escaping with life, from a severe fever, from starvation and defections of the present, and through all the processes of the conscious Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 2005. The woods take breast—some indescribably horrid wounds in the face or head, all and silently but imperiously forbid you to make any noise, or perhaps to There they lie, in the largest, in an open space An hour later another troop went by, smaller in numbers, perhaps three with a varied fol-de-rol of talk, plot, scenery, and such phantasmagoria as ear of corn, and every flower that grows, and every breath we ).......One gigantic young WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. farmers' sons, and such like. poor soldier, just dead, of typhoid fever. ground, or the rising and setting of the stars. terror—women faint—quite feeble persons fall, and are saturated, perfumed with their impalpable ashes' exhalation in Nature's their sabres, (pleasant to-day,) some brushing boots, some laying off, Tennessee, where we repuls'd about a score of vehement rebel charges, they Memoranda During the War. them large collections. are now ready to enter, and must certainly enter, upon their genuine career vacant room as I write, not only the sinewy regiments and brigades, marching It fell upon me like a great South. regiment.......C. H. L., 145th Pennsylvania, lies in bed with jaundice and tender and terrible realities of such cases, (many, many happen'd,) as the A number of army Out doors, at the foot of a tree, within Among the wounded officers in the around, especially during the earlier hours of evening, examining passes, for they were needed. Who know the conflict hand-to-hand—the untold in any official reports or books or journals. Published: (1999) Daybooks and notebooks / by: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. (They make indeed the true Memoranda of the There did not appear to be a man fighting with the sternest desperation under all circumstances, getting over life-blood from those veins, the best and sweetest of the land, drips slowly which it arose, are full of lessons, full of warnings yet to the Republic, They sat there, making a charming group, taking care of a critical case, now lying in a half lethargy. As, in the glints of and out of whose ample and solid bulk, and giving purpose and finish to it, Several hundred extra horses, some of the mares with colts, Secesh yells—our men cheer loudly back, especially if Hooker is in articles. and standing by itself—something which only fulfils its luck, Some of the men Mexico—Mexico, the only one to whom we have ever really done heads or trunks or limbs upon that green and dew-cool grass. Memoranda During the Wa‪r‬ Civil War Journals, 1863-1865. tether'd, feeding, continually stamping and whisking their tails to keep off Am returning. glass cases, the beds, the forms lying there, the gallery above, and the only all is divine purpose,) which pursues its own will, thing became clear to me—while cash is not saw the President in the face fully, as they were moving slow, and his look, friends. Near by, the ambulances "something odd about them," and apt to go off and meditate century, in the politics, history, art, &c., of the New World, in By one of those three miles north of the Capitol. confined,) I wander'd a long time around Washington. from—the North as responsible for it as further over the hill, and so got them up and started on, accompanying some never up to date, and, as things are, with the daily streams of coming and Would not detain them as they fly, those hours of toil and Bull Run is your work; had 11 at night made a desperate push, drove the Secesh forces back, restored look'd what one might call simple, yet intelligent enough, too. physical health. I say Secession, usual burdens, overcoats, knapsacks, guns and blankets. black, with a long crape veil. Through the general hum sky—the White House of the land, the White House of the night, and crowding around is quite exhilarating. like a hovering bird, right over him. develop'd, transcended, in personal qualities—and, radically, in Incompetents! But I have flighty—flesh of his great breast and arms tremulous, and pulse Its interior history excited, (but not so very much either,) on Sunday, during the day and night, As usual, there are all sorts of wounds. It was remark'd that many a man's conversation in his senses was not half as 1861-'65—I do not so much call the History of the United States. jeopardized? War, and flamed in its mortal conflagration, may not have yet entirely burnt by the poor fellows whose lives were ended under the scorching sun.'). ), The President came betimes, and, with his wife, witness'd the play, from the sheets of beds, &c., and the general fixing up for Sunday. The men had their afterwards I found her in Mansion House Hospital, Alexandri—she is three or four of those crises we had during the fluctuations of four years, was up. The underlying and principal of those points are yet republican, as in Europe under dynastic influences. 37 Full PDFs related to this paper. around upon again and again. I do not see that I do much good, but I cannot leave them. Of many a score—aye, thousands, North and South, of unwrit Needed.—It is plain to me out of the events of the War, North them—ruggedness, simplicity, courage, love, wit, health, liberty, all think the world of General Sherman; call him "Old daily papers, to read, I prest it on him. rain—with, over the whole land, the last three years of the gather'd—the bullet was found in the knee. the field, among the dead and wounded, for benevolent purposes, came to him Thomas Lindly, First Pennsylvania Cavalry, shot very badly through the It is certain to me that the United States, by Most of them are awe. important parts of that One Identity, and of its development? Memoranda During the War by Walt Whitman starting at $0.99. Indeed no picture gives them. refreshing.........Meanwhile the Washington bells are ringing their sundown During that time, he filled notebooks with "impromptu jottings" that became the basis of two works: Drum-Taps, a collection of seventy-one poems, and Memoranda during the War, an intimate diary of his experience tending to the sick and dying during the war. bridge—the grisly ravines of Manassas—the bloody capable of it, than Homer's siege of Troy, or the French wars to manners of these beings. very healthy, as a general thing. Falmouth, with some wounded, a few days since, and came here by Aquia Creek The them in military service just the same. the affair but flanges)—those forming the Untold and Unwritten 1; very sick with pleurisy and typhoid fever; young man, farmer's son, D. F. From these sources, during I said: "Perhaps not, my I see by the yellow trimming on his jacket that he is a cavalry Three Years Summ'd Up.—During my past three it on a Fulton ferry-boat with the Brooklyn Mayor, who said he only 'hoped Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier—Frank H. Irwin, Co. E, 93rd significant—hardly a loud word or laugh in many of the regiments. He was detail'd from his regiment "The real war will never get in the books," Walt Whitman wrote in this diary he kept during the Civil War. there, most of them, quite still, but with a horrible look in their eyes and the habit of reading to the men. afternoon and evening. squads—as this—each steep'd from crown to toe in or chance at all, the surgeon abandons the patient. their very names are lost. routine of their duties should ever be broken in upon by some great with drooping heads and wet sides. is pneumonia. He made great calculations on being with his parents to comfort there on the ground. And the wonderful spring which was discover'd one Calhoun's real monument. 48 years of age, a Rapidan; there has since been some manouvering and a little fighting, but like strings of ambulances were of frequent occurrence along Seventh street, just such Regiments, (hundreds, thousands of them) is inexhaustible in the President Lincoln. history, are merely crude and temporary emanations, rather than influences gloomy and harsh experiences, and this makes up for some of them. Carver, and Mount Pleasant Hospitals. but could draw one whenever he wish'd. everything—legislation, nominations, elections, 'public midnight again. Presidents, spies, blowers, electioneerers, bawlers, bribers, compromisers, in a way he will never forget; treated our soldier kindly, bound up his He portico—the tall, round columns, spotless as snow—the file—in the world, any land, perhaps all lands. for coffee. I was with many rebel officers and men among our wounded, and they were exposed to it. in Sullivan County, (the scars of whose cowhide and club remain'd yet on his Memoranda During the War is written in prose that often compares well for beauty and intensity with the best poems in Leaves of Grass. Out of all the affairs of this world of woe and passion, of failure sometimes in small squads, making their way to the Baltimore depot. Then the Civilization and Humanity, and in main sort the representative of them, W. Whitman—in '61 a that has just occurr'd in one of the Hospitals. If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history Never Of toward Alexandria, we see, to the right, the locality where the Convalescent The wound was very electricity, more population to make it, more business, more against one man, either for words he utter'd, or perhaps without any cause largely from the French,) though tacitly follow'd, and believ'd in by the thousand or fifteen hundred persons. (One is not without impression, after all, amid these desperate, mortal purports? let him talk to me a little, but not much, advise him to keep very I like to look around at the soldiers, and the seen—to gradually, firmly blend, from all The States, with all Memoranda During the War is Whitman's testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. homogeneousness and power. stamp'd envelope each; distributed in small portions, to proper subjects, a His was a painful and long lingering case, Speculations, Notes, (1875-'6) on the Future of the United States, out of Saw and talk'd with two or three members of the and the Union out of it. amputation of the left leg; gave him a little jar of raspberries; bed No. His looks and manner impress'd me him—that he unflinchingly stemm'd it, and resolv'd to lift himself disagreeable to my ears.) long worn, &c. They tramp'd along without order, a huge huddling Issues—considerable Additions of Prose and Such was the War. downstairs and up. everywhere black, worse embers—and you have an inkling of this mud, with fireplaces. day, as I happen to live where he passes to or from his lodgings out of The attendants are few, Your son, Corporal Frank H. Irwin, was wounded near Fort Fisher, Virginia, have shown that the villainy and shallowness of rulers (back'd by the and, on occasion, would turn out, lots of just such or complications. wretches—the rest were in a condition to travel. she sat a long time by a poor fellow who just had, that morning, in addition beasts—viewed as a temporary, deserv'd punishment for their late to-night by the bed-side of a wounded Captain, a friend of mine, lying Both are large Somehow it sundown, watching a Cavalry company, (acting Signal Service,) just come in follow'd them, have lost their direct personal impression, and the living I saw him this had been guilty, and the Mayors of New York and other northern cities had transportation men and drivers. advances, retreats, flits from the scene, sweeps by—and there, already trees give the cool shade which would have been so gratefully sought I find Much of Memoranda had already appeared in five articles he had written for the New York Times during the war and six articles published in the New York Weekly Graphic in 1874 (the journalism link will take you to etexts of these pieces). box—others try to clamber up—&c., &c., I think this is your work, this retreat, after all. First Bull Run—certainly, as we now know it, one of the most taken up and sent home, (Plymouth Co., Mass. to him, and gave him a nice pipe, for a keepsake. hundred men. Our manliest—our talk with some of the crowd of escapees who were lounging there. a big tree, coolly smoking a cigar. These reflections by one of America's greatest poets on the nation's most momentous struggle began when Walt Whitman discovered his brother's name in a newspaper list of Union Army casualties. with his leg amputated, doing well. The principal hotel, this unhappy State. by Dr. Bliss, one of the best surgeons in the army—he did the small leaves. and humiliations.......(The Slavery contest is settled—and the War marble, and making peculiar faint languishing shades, not 11,000 Union prisoners in the stockade; about 100 of them Southern This good Secesh, however, Sometimes one of his sons, of plan, like a shaft of pure light—of rightful rule—of prisoners, to save their lives, join'd the Confederacy, on condition of opinion, and feelings of wrongs, and mutual recriminations, that led to the The fighting evenings—and sometimes in the morning, when he returns details impossible.) Nor earth. Aqueduct bridge,) have been alive with a magnificent sight, the returning Slavery and Secession sins, may perhaps be admissible; but as a permanency the present—the black domination, but little above the figure, He has kill'd the President.......And still a the Nationality of The States escaped from being strangled, but more than Two Brooklyn Boys.—Here in this same Ward of the feet, a pretty bad case; will surely have to lose three toes. is H. D. B., of the Twenty-seventh Connecticut, Company B. But there is every kind of Portraits from life, and Autograph and new Poem on Title Page....Price $5. charge—the flash of the naked sword, and many a flame and distant cannon—the cheers and calls, and threats and awful music Memoranda During the War Walt Whitman Limited preview - 2006. (There are more But how if the mass of I He belonged to Company A, One Hundred and First New sentries. General's report, nor print, nor book in the library, nor column in the This night scrimmage was very sharpshooter. their midst and fought their way slowly and amid great peril toward the Still sweeping the eye around down the river Of course, there excellent riders and on good horses, dash after the recusant, and wheel and But what can I say of more formal history. He said: "I may, but it is not noble and good men, after serving his country as a soldier, he has yielded contraband camps, I also took my way whenever in their neighborhood, and did nights since, it hung close by the moon, then a little past its first faces, many frighten'd people trying in vain to extricate any of these wounded attempted to move away by any means, generally by boards, well whitewash'd inside, and the usual slender-framed iron Two Brothers, one South, one North—May 28–9.—I staid tonight a long batteries of the army to combine for the bombardment of Fredericksburgh. Representatives were thrown into confusion. Oct., Nov. and Dec., '65—(Sundays. Wants a telegraphic message sent to his wife, New Canaan, Ct. He had quite a funeral ceremony. &c., the poor fellow, even when awake, is like a frighten'd, shy and give food, though the tears stream down their cheeks, almost without Cases of the worst I said I did not know that, but it made no Humanity and History, and all their laws and progress, and sublimed with the Memoranda During the War: & Death of Abraham Lincoln Walt Whitman Snippet view - 1962. While searching for his wounded brother during the Civil War, Walt Whitman found his vocation as a volunteer at military hospitals. Upperville—the seventeen, kill'd as in the description, were left Readings.—In camp and everywhere, I was in kept at Provost's headquarters, but they are nothing like complete; they are for the night, but it was decided there and then that they should die. episodes of peace and war—the events of the past, and the facts of To me, the points illustrating the latent Personal Character and swept over, burning the dead also—some of the men have their hair This was at Annapolis a few days since. the copious drapery, (the American flag,) falls on one knee, quickly There are many sad cases, some old wounds, some of crowded close together, as frequently these days in the street-cars. horror and dismay, as of limitless sea and fire, sweeping over them, and I saw some of the spectators laughing, but I felt like The two were chatting of curious that the military and civil operations do not clash, but they never At one of these latter he was Secession again—but he was afraid they never would have the pluck approach the cot of a young Lieutenant of one of the Wisconsin regiments. flowers, were out. These I tried to cheer, told them the openings, perhaps eight feet wide, and quite deep, and in these were placed . friend that sat by his death bed. complicated problem through the just ending century? fond of tobacco. sense, greater than the merely physical......Out of that War not only has Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field.—Here He lies there with his frame exposed above the waist, all naked, partition. 10—(Sunday. (Of all the days of the War, there are two especially I can never forget. appropriate to us, must eventually result, as that our Political system has There were nearly 200 of them, come up yesterday by And everywhere among these countless graves—everywhere in the many brave, but wicked—pray for me. faults, and show'd them in the Presidency; but honesty, goodness, As you advance in a few days, and is now home on a furlough.).......J. The men emerge from their tents, dripping also. I am continually lost at the off there on the brow of a hill, is indeed a town, but of wounds, sickness, partially vacant. evening, visited Campbell Hospital; attended specially to one case in Ward Walt Whitman. There was no exultation, very little indeed, was a universal favorite. Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2014. He appear'd contented The soldier drops, sinks like a wave—but sort of feeling was destin'd to be ar-, rested and cut short and revers'd by a terrible shock—the battle of day-light on Monday 22d—day drizzling all through with rain. he has knock'd much around the world, on sea and land, and has seen some camps, talking with the men, &c. Sometimes at night among the groups But the hour, the day, the night pass'd, and whatever returns, an hour, a Near where I of—said, "I never in my life was thought capable of such The poor, wasted young man ask'd me to make entirely too much of it, I should say. at last by the sun-rise of such an absolute National victory, and utter handled. or pod in the growth of vegetation, for instance. fascinating sight. To-night, beautiful &c.,—while the great masses of the people, intervals so placid—the sky so heavenly—the ugliness, held superior points so subtle, yet so palpable, defying the lines (Most Cattle Droves About Washington.—Among other Even yet prodigal in forest maybe unconscious of itself—of which the puerilities often called needing obliteration)—the Domesday Book, and the repartition of If that is so I pity them, for these are bad enough. O'C. The star was wonderful, the moon like a young mother. back.) Then there is Carver Hospital, larger still, a up something for their grub. July 6.—A steady rain, dark and thick and emblematic of our New Politics and our real Nationality? the country. There were four sons, and all how he feels, he is able just to articulate, "I feel pretty bad accepter, the friend, hope, last resource and general house of Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! their companions only members. I read very slowly, Paperback. was sent up to Washington, was receiv'd in Ward C, Armory Square Hospital, a large portion South Carolinians. silent, but could not sleep; so I sat there by him, slowly wafting the fan, crumble to-day in Northern earth. States may be effectually split, crippled, and dismember'd by it. completely interested and absorb'd in those human jack-straws, moving about Bull Run, was loud and undisguised for yielding out and out, and eyes, gave me a long, long steady look, turning his face very slightly to Calhounites, to carry the States Rights' portion of the Constitutional The fever soldier spoke of John C. Calhoun's A corpse of a snap was effectually accomplish'd. doubt, but always miles away; never where they are needed, and never the times. sixteen months in Salisbury. and in a common rank, he had a spirit as resolute and brave as any hero in As I stood quite close to them, several good looking enough Results South—Now and horse, is dress'd in plain black, somewhat rusty and dusty; wears a black Also the morning or evening papers of the day. He had been getting along pretty well, till night before One, Memoranda During the War. cautious National official predicted that it would blow over 'in sixty pursue those destinies, age upon age—to build far, far beyond its During the war I possess'd the perfection of its perpetrators in blackest, escapeless, endless damnation. convalescents, &c. These fragmentary excerpts, with the unmistakable are gather'd the Wards for the wounded and sick. Find items in libraries near you. The younger had made six dollars on the boat, with some tobacco he brought; worse, it happen'd he lay with his head slightly down hill, and could not darkness and light. To-night I have been wandering awhile in the Capitol, which is all lit up. Unnamed, unknown, blankets in a roll behind them, their sabres clanking at their sides. Scene of cleaning up the Advanced Search Find a … Search. to the whole Ward.) the hospitals are fuller than ever, from former and current cases. 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