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Author(s): Walt Whitman, Peter Coviello
ISBN(s): 9780195167948, 0195167945
Edition: annotated edition
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Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0195167945 
ISBN 13: 9780195167948
Author: Walt Whitman, Peter Coviello

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. But Whitman also found there a “new world,” a world dense with horror and revelation. Memoranda During the War is Whitman’s testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. The book consists of journal entries extending from Whitman’s arrival on the front in 1862 through to the war’s conclusion in 1865. Whitman details his encounters with soldiers and doctors, meditates on particular battles and on the meanings of the war for the nation, and recounts his wordless though peculiarly intimate public exchanges with President Lincoln, a man Whitman saw often on the streets of Washington and by whom he was deeply fascinated. The book offers an astounding amalgam of death portraits, anecdotes of battle, last words, messages to distant loved ones, and remarkably restrained and muted descriptions of pain, dismemberment, and dying–all of it, however grim, suffused with Whitman’s undiminished enthusiasm and affection for these young soldiers. And throughout, we find Whitman laboring with heroic determination to sustain and nourish his once-ardent faith in America and American life, even as the nation unleashed unprecedented violence upon itself. The book also includes Whitman’s famous speech “The Death of Abraham Lincoln,” selected poems, and a letter to the parents of a deceased soldier. Edited and introduced by Peter Coviello, Memoranda During the War is a powerful portrait of a nation at war written by one of our greatest poets.

Memoranda During the War 1st Table of contents:

INTRODUCTION: Whitman at War
Selected Bibliography
MEMORANDA: During the War
Memoranda, &c
FALMOUTH, VA., opposite Fredericksburgh, December 21, 1862.
December 23 to 31.
WASHINGTON, January, ’63.
Thursday, Jan. 21.
Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field.
Letter Writing.
Saturday, Jan. 30.
Wednesday, Feb. 4th.
Feb. 23.
The White House, by Moonlight—Feb. 24.
An Army Hospital Ward.
A Connecticut Case.
Two Brooklyn Boys.
A Secesh Brave.
The Wounded from Chancellorsville, May, ’63.
May 12—A Night Battle, over a week since.
June 18.
W.H.E., Co. F., Second N.J.
June 25, (Thursday, Sundown).
Bad Wounds, the Young.
June 29.
July 3.
4th July—Battle of GETTYSBURG.
A Cavalry Camp.
July 6.
July 10.
A New York Soldier.
Aug. 8.
SHINING SHORES.
Aug. 12.
Heated term.
Soldiers and Talks.
Death of a Wisconsin Officer.
Aug., Sep., and Oct., ’63—The Hospitals.
Oct. 20.
Spiritual Characters Among the Soldiers.
Cattle Droves About Washington.
Hospital Perplexity.
CULPEPPER, VA., Feb., ’64.
Paying the Bounties.
Rumors, Changes, &c.
Virginia.
WASHINGTON Again—Summer of 1864.
Readings.
A New Army Organization Fit for America Needed.
Death of a Hero.
A Slight Glimpse.
Ice Cream Treat.
An Incident.
Another.
A Yankee Soldier.
Union Prisoners South—Salisbury.
Deserters—Saturday, Oct. 24.
A Glimpse of War’s Hell-Scenes.
Gifts—Money—Discrimination.
Items Wanted—(From my Note Books.)
A Case from Second Bull Run.
Army Surgeons—Aid deficiencies.
The Blue Everywhere.
Sunday, Jan. 29, 1865.
Boys in the Army.
Burial of a Lady Nurse.
Female Nurses for Soldiers.
Southern Escapees, Feb. 23, ’65.
Feb. 27, ’65.
Feb. 28.
March 1st.
The Inauguration, March 4.
The Weather—Does it Sympathise with these Times?
March 6—Inauguration Ball.
Scene at the Capitol.
March 27, 1865—A Yankee Antique.
Wounds and Diseases.
Murder of President Lincoln.
Releas’d Union Prisoners from South.
Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier—Frank H. Irwin, Co. E, 93rd Pennsylvania—Died May 1, ’65—My letter to his mother.
May 7—(Sunday.)
May 21.
May 22.
The Grand Review.
Western Soldiers—May 26–7.
May 28.
Two Brothers, one South, one North—May 28–9.
May 31.
June 9–10.
Sunday, Sep. 10.
Calhoun’s Real Monument.
October 3.
Oct., Nov. and Dec., ’65—(Sundays.)
Dec. 10—(Sunday.)
Three Years Summ’d Up.
The Million Dead, too, summ’d up—The Unknown.
UNKNOWN.
NOTES
‘Convulsiveness.’
Typical Soldiers.
Attack on Fort Sumter, April, 1861.
The ensuing three Months—The National Uprising and Volunteering.
Contemptuous National feeling.
Battle of Bull Run, July, 1861.
Sherman’s Army’s Jubilation, 1865—Its sudden stoppage.
Attitude of Foreign Governments toward the U.S. during the War of 1861–’65.
No good Portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
The War, though with two sides, really ONE IDENTITY
Results South—Now and Hence.
Future History of the United States, growing out of the War—(My Speculations.)
EDITOR’S NOTES
APPENDICES
“Death of Abraham Lincoln”
Lecture Deliver’d in New York, April 14 1879—In Philadelphia, ’80—in Boston, ’81
Selected Poems
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
When I Heard at the Close of the Day
Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me?
City of Orgies
To a Stranger
Letter to the Parents of Erastus Haskell

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