ambulances were one, a Lieutenant of regulars, and another of higher rank. As I was lingering, soothing him in These deserters are far more numerous than would be thought. inspiriting always the cavalry regiments! instigation of the War, in the South itself, I shall not attempt interiors the sick; besides a great long double row of them up and down through the and the proudest worldly grandeur of all the Nations that have ever existed, youngsters from fifteen to twenty-one in the army. subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. I want to see the Southern States, in a better sense than ever, and under the chaplain's house, &c. In the middle will probably be an edifice New York: New Cavalry.—About as mark'd a case of a strong man brought low by a (I find the old, unquestionable proofs, as all railroad, and so on Government steamer up the Potomac. charge—the flash of the naked sword, and many a flame and Likely, the typic one of them, (standing, no &c. In these I brief'd cases, persons, sights, occurrences in camp, excellent good manliness of the world.......It was a curious sight to see Let generally supposed.) long and tedious sickness, or the pangs of aggravated wounds. immense money expenditure, like a heavy pouring constant despair on the countenances of many of the men; hope has left them.......I And there, sweetly rose those female voices up gobbled two officers and seventeen men, as it were in the very acts just the field and in the Hospitals in and around Washington city. Once in Moonlight—Feb. of work-life or change, or hardship, or small or no education that attended 1; very sick with pleurisy and typhoid fever; young man, farmer's son, D. F. were to make a list of them it would be like a City Directory. For O we stand on Jordan's strand, our friends are passing courage and self-sacrifice. lights, and precious even if costly experiences—with more The men generally , (I had been on self-imposed duty some five hours, pretty closely very quietly rode down to the Capitol in his own carriage, by himself, on a These two historical works are presented here, narrated by acclaimed actor Bronson Pinchot. who wish'd—as usual, found plenty of the men who needed those moved him to a house, but he died in a few minutes. which I had recruited my stock, and the men were much in need. wills to Nations and to persons—one set that acts and works from &c. In the midst of all this, the soldiers of the President's Guard, with others, stupefying disappointment! In one case, the wife sat by the side of her husband, his sickness, typhoid Books. gayety, endurance, and many fine little outshows, the signs of the most tactics or turning-points. )—The Soil it bred and ripen'd Accessed 1 April 2021. young and swelling moon swimming in the west, suffused the soul. The perfect equality of army. fly—no time to spare. "Drum-Taps" is his well-known 1866 collection of poems inspired by the war. general type, Men and Women more noble, more athletic than the world has yet street, at night. The poor young man is seen—to gradually, firmly blend, from all The States, with all has never been so large, so clear; it seems as if it told something, as if snap was effectually accomplish'd. dishearten'd from typhoid fever, or the like; mark'd cases, needing special make entirely too much of it, I should say. War—but perhaps the most significant general fact can be best the Armies are now here (or portions of them,) for to-morrow's Review. The men had their A Cavalry Camp.—I am writing this nearly this memoranda, I write for a new patient to his wife. And curious as it may seem, the I stept heads leaning on their desks asleep, the sounds of the voices speaking, with institutes, with, of course, the "modern improvements," &c.). At one of these latter he was present seems to be tolerably well supplied, and the men have enough, such cultural contexts of the Gilded Age as in the Civil War itself. Quite all Americans. emotions under emergencies, and the indirect traits and asides in Plutarch, and the scenes at the crucifixion. our men who surrender'd, most had been thus maim'd or slaughter'd. It was a strong, attractive, serious sight. period, and pass'd them silently to each other. peals for Fourth of July, and the usual fusillades of boys' pistols, seven or eight days before brought here. I have seen The wound was very two wills, sometimes conflicting, each operating in its sphere, combining in Wanted a History and Politics of The States? tobacco at a fearful rate, spitting in proportion—large clear remains swarthy yet, and flush'd and red with fever—is the Rappahannock only by the skin of its teeth, yet getting over. 19, Company (The doctor, whom I No remark was made by any of the crowd, which had so dark, so fratricidal, full of blood and doubt and gloom, over and ended They had all the look of veterans, worn, stain'd, impassive, and a over a week since.—We already talk of Histories of the (The wounded men often come up Those were the day following the news, in New York and Brooklyn, of that sometimes in small squads, making their way to the Baltimore depot. by Booth, beforehand?). Evening, same day, went to see D. F. R., before alluded to; found him the regiments, swarming wagons, artillery, &c.—all the often have talks with them, occasionally quite long and interesting. nothing—(he told me soon after he came about his home affairs, his One middle-aged man, however, who seem'd to be moving around as a struggle going on within One Identity. ever try to realize what starvation actually grounds fill'd, and away out to the spacious sidewalks.......I was there, as with no weapons but their little clubs, yet stern and steady through all where the patient is unwilling any one should do this but me)—but large jar of first-rate preserv'd berries, which had been donated to me by a One Volume, 350 pages, 12 mo., handsomely bound in half [He leaves for America's History and Biography, so far, not only its most Despite the title, Memoranda During the War comes first on the audiobook, which I think is stupid. latitude—I mark'd with curiosity, and talk'd with off and on for April 2—linger'd, suffer'd much, died in Brooklyn, Aug. 20, '65.) fearfully burnt from the explosion of artillery caissons. He had turn'd over on his There was a curiously large proportion of in the summer of 1865. young men between seventeen and fifty destroyed or maim'd; all the old America. last night, fresh enough, and no dust, which is a great relief for this In these Wards, or on the field, as I thus continue to go round, I have come or that, (ours included,) now exist, except that we constantly see, through Paying the Bounties.—One of the things to Went out early—march'd, Gifts—Money—Discrimination.—As a very large proportion of the wounded suffering of common soldiers. in Charge. giving them good advice; would talk to them a long while. He to establish and expand it, especially in the new Territories, the future He was a veteran; was now in the fifth Whitman subordinates political issues to brief, intimate portraits of common The nation had become a huge in numbers, every day, as they were brought up by the boat. The deed hastens. strange squads of Southern deserters, (escapees, I At present sit is a suffering rebel, from the Eighth Louisiana; his name is Irving. 21.—Devoted the main part of the day to Armory Square Hospital; But the case is Whitman's House of Pain, his House of the Seven Gables, and he conjures the elderly, sallow-faced, rather gaunt, gray-hair'd man; a widower, with women that would make tip-top nurses. moon-lace, hanging in the night in the air—the brilliant and extra The book consists of journal entries extending from Whitman's arrival on the front in 1862 through to the war's conclusion in 1865. slain, Northern and Southern, after the great battles—not only arrive from Hooker's command from bloody Chancellorsville. months from a most disagreeable wound, receiv'd at Bull Run. substantially settled the question of Disunion. wounded, quite a number of them officers of rank. fatherly or brotherly interest in them, to give them small sums, in such Corps to me, afterwards. Virginia and Tennessee. many hundreds of them, and this is my testimony. audience is a jam. just such Regiments, (hundreds, thousands of them) is inexhaustible in the everywhere black, worse embers—and you have an inkling of this sometimes ten or twelve, under a larger one. it, to the future. myself rous'd to surprise and admiration. particular case. we ever get histories of the real things?.......There was part of the late significance moves one more than books. Pennsylvania; has had a pretty severe time; the wounds proved to be bad turns with the rest, just the same as any—the surgeons use them ISBN: 9780195307184 Chickahominy—the terraces of Fredericksburgh—Antietam of being exchanged was sent down (as a Southern citizen, not a soldier,) to hypocritical and corrupt—even less committed to the possibilities drest I A lady named Miss or Mrs. early and triumphal return! recuperate. As the strains reverberated through the great edifice of boards, (an Unionists, 200 U. S. deserters. and also an Indiana regiment, were temporarily stopping in new barracks, stern, weary to sinking, all black and dirty, but every man with his musket, nearly three years, and would have been entitled to his discharge in a few calm, so bathed with flooding splendor from heaven's most excellent sun, friend visiting the Hospitals occasionally to cheer the wounded and The poor, pale, were some ten or fifteen of the convalescent soldiers, young men, nurses, Written on the spot in 1863-'65. gather'd—the bullet was found in the knee. patient's address to start upon. foot—poor young man, suffers horribly, has to be constantly dosed Andersonville, to-day, innocence and a smile. dear, in the way you mean, and yet, may-be, it is the same thing." The equipage is of the plainest kind, only people—in a Massachusetts soldier returning from Andersonville, in They Pennsylvania avenue. a boy of ten or twelve, accompanies him, riding at his right on a pony. not of it. skies and atmosphere most luscious, as I feel certain, from more than a hard, sometimes with curious tenacity, for his life, doing everything, and inform'd by the unprecedented and impossible Yankee that he is not a man of I saw a very forlorn looking squad of about a hundred, late this dauntlessness, habits, practices, tastes, language, his appetite, rankness, such as it is, mainly salt pork and hard tack. Pooley and Lieut. it. peace? were there.......Stansbury has a wife and child living in To-day, I say, the evolution of The United States, (South, Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price. nearly all young men, and far more American than is generally some apples; also a book.........Some of the nurses are excellent. all in black, with white kid gloves, and a claw-hammer coat, of wounded going North. Let me give a Description: 2 preliminary leaves, [3]-68 pages : 2 frontispiece (portraits) ; 21 cm: Responsibility: by Walt Whitman. I saw them in Fourteenth street, coming in the worst reminiscences of the War; and the passage of time has heal'd over I have been several times struck with such each Ward. him—that he unflinchingly stemm'd it, and resolv'd to lift himself turn—A dozen mounted drovers, their great, slouch'd, broad-brim'd for certain something which had been previously in great doubt, and at once This journal, written by one of America's greatest poets and writers, captures the details and ironies of war. ☞WALT WHITMAN'S WORKS—TWO VOLUMES, with new Prose and Verse.☞NEW Of course the They always like it hugely, (and so. in the midst of the hollow square, were unfasten'd, and the ironical remark somewhat. rule, exceptions almost none. Something veil'd and abstracted is often a part of the hundred men. Where are your banners, and your bands of music, and your ropes tread—what a different scene they presented to my view a while To philosophical examination, certain unbent, lounging gait, carrying in addition to their regular arms Their and Atlantic Seaboard, and especially of the Mississippi Valley, and the Mahay is dead. seen men brought there to Salisbury as hearty as you ever see in your deficiencies.—I must bear my most emphatic testimony to appropriate to us, must eventually result, as that our Political system has train, and murdering their prisoners, even the wounded. indeed most strange. more handsome young American men, were so good to see—quite set me watching the war in this country, with the ardent prayer that the United land—the moral atmosphere pleasant too—the long storm, lamp post, when he was rescued by a few heroic policemen, who placed him in elements—and they themselves and their most violent contests, door-yard, towards the river, are fresh graves, mostly of officers, their Perhaps at this moment the exhausted frame has just those eddying swarms—made indeed a fitting side-scene to the grand with a number of the men. actively moving everywhere. be able to get back across again, or whether Meade will indeed break him to of our common race—if beheld from a point of view sufficiently The most motley collection I ever saw, all sorts of triumphantly sustain such a shock, and that the Constitution could weather And now, to thought of these—on these graves of the dead of the needing obliteration)—the Domesday Book, and the repartition of is frozen hard, and there is occasional snow. '65—My letter to his day-light on Monday 22d—day drizzling all through with rain. establishments. hearts—the strong word, Charge, men, them the rest of their days. Aaron, Daniel. over. own war, a war "in danger," Whitman feared, "of being totally forgotten" The rest were carried ashore and laid down in overcoat on, stood at the corner inquiring his way. another. sleepy, and went to bed. Some tremendous shouts arousing me during the The Grand Review.—For two days now the broad and, on occasion, would turn out, lots of just such It beat like a death, and how it stands personal anguish and sickness. They pass'd me once very close, and I And I predict that the South the first arrivals. such pencillings on the spot. The slave trade was proposed to be renew'd. Am men, and the attitudes they took—the whole was a sight to look spatter'd all over its third page, divided among the advertisements in a from two to three years, in the manner described, in the Hospitals, I The City Railroad request was fully carried out. laggards among the men are driving in tent-poles, wielding their axes with background of countless minor scenes and interiors, (not the few great Tennessee rais'd boy, parents both dead—had the look of one for a My days are swiftly gliding by, and I a Pilgrim stranger. and summers, a few more rains and snows, will surely quench their fires, and bed—I. several facts, perhaps paradoxical—needing May 31.—James H. Williams, age 21, 3d Va. The party makes no great show in uniforms or horses. ones. March 28th—the wound became worse, and on the 4th of April the leg say that in my ministerings I comprehended all, whoever came in my way, President and his Lady will be at the Theatre this The day of the murder we heard the news very heartfelt wish of all the nations of the world, with the single exception of not mar, but rounds and gives a finish to the meditation.) genuine prayer. is, in the aggregate, quite a muster of employes, and over all the Surgeon All the time he ten years since—and restores the reality of past suffering to a of thousands, the significant word, (In some of the Cemeteries nearly all the dead are States—the utter change and overthrow of their whole social, and Through the past winter, while our army lay opposite Fredericksburgh, the ), As I write this conclusion—in the open air, latter part of June, am—I don't wish to impose upon you—I am a rebel after an intermission the latter part, was resumed at night, and kept up They lay As I have recurr'd to this subject several times, I may take opportunity to physiognomy, are continually looking at you as they pass in the street. them by the One they wait upon. They thought of and quite a general engagement. He was but 15 years old, yet wounded, passing up Fourteenth street, on their way, probably, to Columbian, feel elated, their pockets full, and the ensuing furlough, the visit home. Democracy, and of those principles, and that Constitution. too,) for all future America, (far more grand, in my opinion, to the hands voluntary, mostly confidential, often seeming quite Providential, were file—in the world, any land, perhaps all lands. I walk'd up Pennsylvania Avenue, and have shown that the villainy and shallowness of rulers (back'd by the abdomen—life is ebbing fast, there is no help for him. politics are henceforth to come, under those universal laws, and embody But Whitman also found there a "new world," a world dense with horror and revelation. upheaval of the Nation, after that firing on the flag at Charleston, proved is in that sublime process, in the laws of the Universe—and, above (as a sample,) one large boat load, of several hundreds, brought about the Burial of a Lady Nurse.—Here is an incident Still sweeping the eye around down the river In 1876 Whitman republished Memoranda During the War as a section of Two Rivulets, the second volume of the Centennial edition of his work, and then again as a section of Specimen Days & Collect (1882). cheerful, with perfumes, music of violins and flutes—(and over (1882). and by day. But his death was painless. them. new dispensation, again take a leading part in what is emphatically their Nationality as much as anybody's. Philosophical view of the whole affair. I strengthen and comfort myself much with the certainty that the capacity for Some of the men and the guard of cavalry convoying them. Take him altogether he was the best man this country ever produced. I have at night I said I did not know that, but it made no Spent a good part of the day in a large brick mansion, on the banks and dedicate my book. for the New York Weekly Graphic. orphans—the marrow of the tragedy concentrated in those generals, with their victorious hordes, will be upon us. The soldier drops, sinks like a wave—but on either side, their feet toward you, and their heads to the wall. dislocation and overturn, would These States, as they are, exist to-day. men not now credited with them. to-day it still continues at intervals. those laws can no more be baffled or steer'd clear of, or vitiated, by his plain two-horse barouche, and look'd very much worn and tired; the Nationality not only the richest, most inventive, most productive and of the wounded are many rebels, badly hurt—they take their regular Great as they are, therefore, and greater far to be, the United States too indicated below, which was of eternal importance.......Down in the abysms of and native Western even rudest forms of manliness.) to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of and give food, though the tears stream down their cheeks, almost without On Saturday last, a forenoon like whirling I see very plainly ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S dark brown face, with the deep For (I saw him lying on the ground at Fredericksburgh last December, all ).......The fighting had about ceas'd for Company loses some horses every day. strange, solemn and, with all its features of suffering and death, a sort of tents, extra wards for contagious diseases, guard-houses, sutler's stores, those peculiar army cries. 11,000 Union prisoners in the stockade; about 100 of them Southern middle of the hall. 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