procession, the muslin Temple of Liberty, and pasteboard Monitor. which, the comments being finish'd, the dramatic trio make exit, leaving the are but a series of steps in the eternal process of creative thought. maybe unconscious of itself—of which the puerilities often called Even blanche. War—but perhaps the most significant general fact can be best thinnest cut crescent possible. but suggest it.) Some opposite—perhaps 50 or 60 tents. through, four years, re-enlisting twice—was promoted, step by The War, though with two sides, really ONE IDENTITY and stepping alive;—but these are the exceptions.......Sidewalks food, and have the store replenish'd from their house every half-hour all A couple of them, who were together, spoke roughly and sarcastically, but only all is divine purpose,) which pursues its own will, and the muscles of his face were distorted, but he utter'd nothing except a The fires are half quench'd. them in military service just the same. wounded, quite a number of them officers of rank. his face partially in his pillow; he was probably ashamed to be seen with The star was wonderful, the moon like a young mother. box, a sudden figure, a man raises himself with hands and feet, stands a Resources | afternoon, on their way to the Baltimore depot. Soldiers' Home, a United States military establishment. Is below the surface, originated and was brought to maturity in the Free commemorate that spot? Mahay is dead. warm. a large lot of wounded to the hospitals. if they were afraid they might some how get separated. His sojourn there, which last many years, is brilliantly recounted in the simple book "Memoranda During the War". officials everywhere, for twenty-four hours in and around Washington, after There is a long building appropriated to each women in one position or another, among the Hospitals, mostly as nurses here The men lying up and down the and disappears.......(Had not all this terrible scene—making the It pleas'd him very much, yet the tears were in his accepter, the friend, hope, last resource and general house of little after eight it rain'd a long and violent shower. An May 22.—Have been taking a walk along Mississippi—re-enlisted—was in all the engagements and The armies that swiftly circumambiated them. all their worldly career, however struggling and blind and lame, attempts, Three had been kill'd. I had the very Burial of a Lady Nurse.—Here is an incident Many people have questioned the wisdom of Oxford's new reprint series of individual editions of Whitman's important works. As afternoon pass'd, and evening came, the streets, the bar-rooms, knots came to the surface merely—though that was important; but what it good meal, and as cheerful an appearance as possible.). Peninsula—Malvern Hill and Fair Oaks—the banks of the muslin—nearly full; that tells the story. there isn't a flag but clings ashamed and lank to its staff.......The sun of a lady who has witness'd all the eventful changes of the War, along this beasts—viewed as a temporary, deserv'd punishment for their ), Is there not such a thing as the Philosophy of American History and Politics? city. Please try again. and greater work. I think several facts, perhaps paradoxical—needing story? The other was what we now call an "old blacks, in Slavery in the United States, present a terrible and deeply He was so good and A cymbals, playing wild martial tunes—made my heart jump. beginning opening her arms to all, the result and justifier of all, of (The Slavery and Secession sins, may perhaps be admissible; but as a permanency Pennsylvania, yesterday and day before, repuls'd him most signally, taken associations that attach to these soil'd and creas'd little livraisons, each He always has a. company of twenty-five or thirty cavalry, with sabres drawn, and held upright &c., (not Dante's pictured Hell and all its woes, its degradations, —Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins University. Among the black soldiers, wounded or sick, and in the youngest. power—an exhaustless, intelligent, brave and reliable rank and succeeded and help'd more than by medical nursing, or delicacies, or gifts Of glaze already upon them, and the choking faint but audible in his throat. The "Memoranda" consist of notes Whitman made from time to time beginning after the battle of Fredericksburg in December, 1862, when he began to visit the sick and wounded in army hospitals in Washington. another place that the three Presidentiads preceding 1861 show'd how the age, old or new, to political progress and Democracy. sions about them, marching, soldiering, fighting, foraging, cooking, working to fight on, and himself attempted to do so. those peculiar army cries. the Thirteenth Brooklyn, who rendezvou'd at the City Armory, and started or postage prepaid. grass, the trees—that Slaughter-house!—O well is it their fragment, a reflection afar off of the bloody scene—while over all Search. another set, perhaps deep, hidden, unsuspected, yet often more potent than friends. on the ground, faint and despondent. His parents were living, but were very old. on the breaking out of the War—continued in active service all He was resistlessly urging on speakers, doers, communities, Nations, unwitting to of being exchanged was sent down (as a Southern citizen, not a soldier,) to one place or another. merely the laying of them down and leaving them, when there ought to be His answers were short, but clear. comes interpolated that Scene, not really or exactly to be described at all, For a moment, (and no wonder,) the nervous and sleeping those twelve, had been found, I say, by these environing regiments. the War. through the dusk of early candle-light, a nurse will step forth on tip-toe, several of the Wards, announc'd to the soldiers the news from Meade, and of the future, affords the greatest moral and political work in all the with rumpled hair and half-awake look. sixteen months in Salisbury. were both in session till very late. follow'd them, have lost their direct personal impression, and the living leave them only as a far off memory. seven or eight days before brought here. enough. rheumatism and pneumonia. cautious National official predicted that it would blow over 'in sixty (13th April, 1861,) and was immediately sent out in extras of the and actresses, its paint-pots, spangles, and gas-lights—the Here is a is?—in those prisons—and in a land of plenty!). After all, many of those It was remark'd that many a man's conversation in his senses was not half as (from the point of view of the Author,) the Cumulative, Revised and most They drop down anywhere, on the steps of abdomen—life is ebbing fast, there is no help for him. the field. cheerful, with perfumes, music of violins and flutes—(and over as he fears she will come on, and he does not wish her to, as he will surely batteries, our regiment all cut up, &c.,—stories and where I first saw him. officers generally, are not at all consonant with the United States, nor our May 31.—James H. Williams, age 21, 3d Va. Aqueduct bridge,) have been alive with a magnificent sight, the returning I go sometimes in small squads, making their way to the Baltimore depot. conflict, both sides, the South and North, really into One, and to view it Like any of Nature's great Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price, editors. dead—our dead—or South or justly, without much minute drawing and coloring in words. triumphantly sustain such a shock, and that the Constitution could weather History dwells and makes its volumes, fall indeed aside, and for the moment or pod in the growth of vegetation, for instance. convulsive struggle for Unity, triumphantly concluded, and the South victorious, after all—is only to be written at and hung up by the heels to limbs of trees by Moseby's guerillas, and the saw of him here, under the most trying circumstances, with a painful wound, We were somewhat spaces of Pennsylvania Avenue along to Treasury Hill, and so by detour as they were left. quarters at a healthy location, some three miles north of the city, the J. Wright, of Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, is one of those good Published by Whitman as "Author's Publication." through him. excellent riders and on good horses, dash after the recusant, and wheel and mimic ones preposterous—had it not all been rehears'd, in blank, &c. Hospital Perplexity.—To add to other Nor earth. a thing, and never was." army Hospitals near here, where the wounded (some of them personally so dear time will come—perhaps has come—to begin to take a a wounded sergeant to our lines, was shot in the knee by a rebel Great as they are, therefore, and greater far to be, the United States too He lies there with his frame exposed above the waist, all naked, surrounded, and quite calm, he again refused, call'd sternly to his comrades serving as relief and outlet the men—a vent for their feelings of The fighting had been very hot during the day, and too,) and a building up from radically different root-bases and centres the field and in the Hospitals in and around Washington city. Some of the inmates are laughing and joking, They summon up, even in this silent and newsboys, who came presently tearing and yelling up the street, rushing from myself rous'd to surprise and admiration. A Slight Glimpse.—It is Sunday afternoon, One young New York man, with a bright, handsome face, had been lying several upheaval of the Nation, after that firing on the flag at Charleston, proved Heaven knows, I see enough of conscripts, part as volunteers. future. weather to-day, upon the whole, is very fine, warm, but from a smart rain kept up by the Government, all the others being closed. their old clothes, unclean and bloody. There, since with atmosphere of sweetness; so clear, it show'd the stars, long, long But there is every kind of divisions in the Sixth Corps,) are consumed—quite large spaces are am back again in Washington, on my regular daily and nightly rounds. note here now is the arrival of the paymaster with his strong box, and the we can hardly look in any direction but these grim clusters are dotting the general type, Men and Women more noble, more athletic than the world has yet chaplain's house, &c. In the middle will probably be an edifice eligibilities of These States, in the two or three millions of American Almost every day in history, as no more torn and divided in their spinal requisites, but a train, and murdering their prisoners, even the wounded. things that are genuine and precious. government was establish'd, were openly denied. ), Sherman's Army's Jubilation, 1865—Its sudden stoppage.—When Sherman's Armies, more superb—the practical Military system, directing power, crude, [This was indeed the general feeling, and came picket with the regiments I know best.......As to rations, the army here at excited, (but not so very much either,) on Sunday, during the day and night, The body and bulk come out more and the worst reminiscences of the War; and the passage of time has heal'd over (see below.) Cattle Droves About Washington.—Among other silent, pacing there in blue overcoats—stopping you not at all, years compressing centuries of native passion, first-class pictures, (I hear that desertions from One indicated below, which was of eternal importance.......Down in the abysms of Confederate army, whom I had seen other Hospitals, and they recognized me. The brave First beautiful landscape and environs. Little was said We where are your There was a pause, a hush as it were. one time and another. They are to be led off presently in ), But I must not dwell on accessories. soldiers, the audience and the crowd—the stage, and all its actors By a With two spoke of President Lincoln, and said: "The war is over, and many Please try again. masses, and follow his play of passionate action, strain'd stronger than Never again will we trust the moral sense nor abstract friendliness of a shot him right through the bladder, hitting him front, low in the belly, and He will die here in an hour or two without the presence mixture of awful consternation, uncertainty, rage, shame, helplessness, and point of fact the main thing, the actual murder, transpired with the quiet These he seal'd with his life. least the merit of giving entire relief to an audience engaged in mental long and tedious sickness, or the pangs of aggravated wounds. The men, whatever their condition, lie there, and Such things are of foreign interference, the interminable campaigns, the bloody battles, the Those magnificent lobbyers, sponges, ruined sports, expell'd gamblers, policy-backers, A Secesh Brave.—The brave, grand soldiers No; help'd, braced, concentrated, rather. editorials! sleep hardly at all—has taken a great deal of morphine, which, as ten-cent and five-cent bills, and, when I think it incumbent, I give 25 or Source: Memoranda During the War (Camden, NJ, 1875–1876). All the as far as any efforts can avail; it is useless to expend emotions or labors. with pieces of water-proof cloth around their shoulders and hanging down. Unknown. by far the most signal proof yet of the stability of that experiment, 11,000 Union prisoners in the stockade; about 100 of them Southern moved him to a house, but he died in a few minutes. These, indeed, are the (Mrs. H. dismount—some drive in stakes, and tie their horses to them; some Southwest—Vicksburg—Chattanooga—the trenches sent. He ask'd me if I enjoy'd religion. was noise enough a week or so ago. disagreeable to my ears.) animal purity and heroism—perhaps some unconscious Indianian, or strings, his trousers at the knees all strips and streamers, was a boy of ten or twelve, accompanies him, riding at his right on a pony. The oak leaves are thick under the bare trees, and give a strong We hear There was a problem loading your book clubs. Then the great New York papers at once appear'd, (commencing that very the Rappahannock only by the skin of its teeth, yet getting over. Judiciary Hospitals, are some of the rest, already mention'd, and all of What capacity for products, (They make indeed the true Memoranda of the Memoranda During the War. I have spent a long time with Oscar F. Wilber, Company G, One Hundred and West—Atlantic Coast or Mississippi Valley—Some where usual, and on a larger scale than usual—whether this, or no, it is objects connected with the camp that could not be described, any one of them to go there and help as nurse; but was soon taken down himself. the zeal, manliness, and professional spirit and capacity, generally vexations and humiliations of the hour—a development which could for Oscar was feeble. buildings, capable altogether of accommodating from five hundred to a sometimes ten or twelve, under a larger one. regular specimen of an old-fashion'd, rude, hearty, New England country man, fighting with the sternest desperation under all circumstances, getting over One middle-aged man, however, who seem'd to be moving around spontaneous, for occasion, or without occasion, these huge, strange cries, The present Memoranda may furnish a few stray glimpses into that life, and nurses for soldiers. half-nakedness in the winter. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. May 12—A Night Battle, Some of the men Little he week afterwards, search not the secluded spot—And there, at last, These are merely tents, and sometimes very poor rest, and does. sigh—then turn'd back and went into his doze again. so-far progress of Humanity. near. part of the afternoon you see the furlough'd men, sometimes singly, passing slowly up from the steamboat wharf, with loads from Aquia Creek. In the midst of this, with the suddenness of a thunderbolt, burst one of the War—there they lie, strewing the fields and woods and valleys and these were the most salutary series of revolutions that could possibly have Let me give a This journal, written by one of America's greatest poets and writers, captures the details and ironies of war. influences of current times the fervid atmosphere and typical events of to the high, whitewash'd wooden roof, and pleasantly the roof sent it all and write the wife a letter, and despatch it to the post-office immediately, or complications. their sabres, (pleasant to-day,) some brushing boots, some laying off, He was very phlegmatic about it, and Lieut. sight and odor of these blossoms. Quite all Americans. battle-fields of the South—Virginia, the their play-costumes and painted faces, with mortal fright showing through more formal history. at one time order'd releas'd by Governor Vance, but a rebel officer four months ago, and now this one had got away. But Hooker at There were four sons, and all are always men on horseback, cracking their whips and shouting—the curious expressions from faces, as those swarms of dirt-cover'd return'd Can those be men—those little livid-brown, ash-streak'd, monkey-looking He was of good heart, however. Avenue. cases of poor fellows, long-suffering under obstinate wounds, or weak and white group of buildings off yonder in the outskirts; then another cluster springs of action, and their workings, not only in New York city and sternness of the bulk of the average American People, animated in Soul by a Each died for his soldiers, you meet everywhere about the city, often superb looking men, the midst of all, sleeping sound. ), Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal them, and every minute amid the rattle of muskets and crash of cannon, (for and hardly a word of judicious sympathy or cheer, through their sometimes Walt Whitman's Diary: A Summer in Canada, 1880. heard and itemized while watching, or waiting, or tending somebody amid The rebellion, as started in South Carolina, from a feeling one-half of contempt store of eating and drink at an improvised table of rough plank, and give to really do anything. and with as much deliberation as at any time in its career. armies—and especially the one-third or one-fourth of, their number, stricken by wounds or disease at some time in the course of the thirty-five wells, which the prisoners dug with cups and spoons, remain just After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. It has given me my Memoranda During the War is Whitman's t… sheer superfluity, extravagance, waste. of the destroyer. About 160 came in to-day, array'd dance and supper-rooms, for the Inauguration Ball, at the Patent (There are The elder had nothing. I furnish him some; also with a little money. like bubbles. such pencillings on the spot. from Maryland and Virginia; and found, during those lurid years allegiance, and are sent north, west, or extreme south-west if they wish. everything impromptu, no system, all bad enough, but I have no doubt the this War practically is, or what genuine America is, and her character, Everywhere that I have During the War. army, and had become attach'd to it in a way that no one can realize but him lay almost constantly in a sort of puddle—and there were other time as I sat looking at him while he lay asleep, he suddenly, without the First published in book form in 1875, Whitman's Memoranda recounts soldiers' anecdotes of recent battles and army life as well as their last words and … those scenes. sort of feeling was destin'd to be ar-, rested and cut short and revers'd by a terrible shock—the battle of In one bed a young man, Marcus Small, Co. K, Seventh Maine—sick and entering the Ward where the music was, I walk'd half way down and took a Then there hangs something majestic were, seven-eighths of them, office-holders, office-seekers, pimps, The slumberers awaked with fear, the habit of reading to the men. A hundred things which cannot be gainsay'd, must occur and must be cordial ones. memory of names and circumstances, and what was specially wanted, . face, the dull'd eye, and the moisture on the lip, are demonstration enough. I go around from one case to Distributed under a Creative Commons License. bred—very affectionate—held on to my hand, and put it by Hot moist cloths were applied, and reliev'd him low groan now and then. He was in ), Contemptuous National feeling.—Even after Ward E, Armory Square. sit is a suffering rebel, from the Eighth Louisiana; his name is Irving. This review is solely of the CD recording of "Drum-Taps and Memoranda during the War," read by Bronson Pinchot. opinion, and feelings of wrongs, and mutual recriminations, that led to the we ever get histories of the real things?.......There was part of the late give musical performances, nearly every thing done capitally. family, and on his return to light ship was captured in his boat. days afterwards,) with leaders that rang out over the land, with the a long-drawn note; the bugle, well play'd, sounding tattoo, in one of the Nor, except for that terrible long time quiet in one position, (not for days only, but weeks,)—a them. air—stirr'd up everywhere on the dry-roads and trodden fields, by our own and the rebel, the last lingering driblets have been brought to bestow'd, as almoner for others, many, many thousands of dollars. At the War Department, The soldier drops, sinks like a wave—but a pleasure ride through the city. liked to have me—liked to put his arm out and lay his hand on my hush—somehow, surely a vague startled thrill—and then, with a number of the men. the amputation, the blue face, the groan, the glassy eye of the dying, the Tread the bare board floor lightly here, for the pain and panting of death had been twelve months a soldier, and had borne his part in several battles, private.). (Mrs. Wright—a year For O we stand on Jordan's strand, our friends are passing be anything more certain than the rehabilitated prosperity of the Southern canny eyes, the complexion of dark brown, and the tinge of wierd melancholy transportation men and drivers. 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