The Life and Legacy of Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman

Specimen Days

       Table of Contents

       A HAPPY HOUR'S COMMAND

       ANSWER TO AN INSISTING FRIEND

       GENEALOGY—VAN VELSOR AND WHITMAN

       THE OLD WHITMAN AND VAN VELSOR CEMETERIES

       THE MATERNAL HOMESTEAD

       TWO OLD FAMILY INTERIORS

       PAUMANOK, AND MY LIFE ON IT AS CHILD AND YOUNG MAN

       MY FIRST READING—LAFAYETTE

       PRINTING OFFICE—OLD BROOKLYN

       GROWTH—HEALTH—WORK

       MY PASSION FOR FERRIES

       BROADWAY SIGHTS

       OMNIBUS JAUNTS AND DRIVERS

       PLAYS AND OPERAS TOO

       THROUGH EIGHT YEARS.

       SOURCES OF CHARACTER—RESULTS—1860

       OPENING OF THE SECESSION WAR

       NATIONAL UPRISING AND VOLUNTEERING

       CONTEMPTUOUS FEELING

       BATTLE OF BULL RUN, JULY, 1861

       THE STUPOR PASSES—SOMETHING ELSE BEGINS

       DOWN AT THE FRONT

       AFTER FIRST FREDERICKSBURG

       BACK TO WASHINGTON

       FIFTY HOURS LEFT WOUNDED ON THE FIELD

       HOSPITAL SCENES AND PERSONS

       PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL

       THE WHITE HOUSE BY MOONLIGHT

       AN ARMY HOSPITAL WARD

       A CONNECTICUT CASE

       TWO BROOKLYN BOYS

       A SECESH BRAVE

       THE WOUNDED FROM CHANCELLORSVILLE

       A NIGHT BATTLE OVER A WEEK SINCE

       UNNAMED REMAINS THE BRAVEST SOLDIER

       SOME SPECIMEN CASES

       MY PREPARATIONS FOR VISITS

       AMBULANCE PROCESSIONS

       BAD WOUNDS—THE YOUNG

       THE MOST INSPIRITING OF ALL WAR'S SHOWS

       BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

       A CAVALRY CAMP

       A NEW YORK SOLDIER

       HOME-MADE MUSIC

       ABRAHAM LINCOLN

       HEATED TERM

       SOLDIERS AND TALKS