Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: How Whitman Wrote the Civil War
1. “The Million Dead, Too, Summ’d Up—The Unknown” (from Memoranda During the War)
2. “Song of Myself,” Sections 33–37 (from Leaves of Grass)
3. “Poem of Wonder at The Resurrection of The Wheat” / “This Compost” (from Leaves of Grass)
4. “Year of Meteors (1859–60)” (from Drum-Taps)
5. “Drum-Taps” (from Drum-Taps)
6. “Beat! Beat! Drums!” (from Drum-Taps)
7. “Opening of the Secession War” (from Memoranda During the War)
8. “Down at the Front” (from Memoranda During the War)
9. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” (from Drum-Taps)
10. “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” (from Drum-Taps)
11. Walt Whitman to Margaret S. Curtis, October 4, 1863 (letter)
12. “The Dresser” (from Drum-Taps)
13. “Patent-Office Hospital” (from Memoranda During the War)
14. “Mother and Babe” (from Drum-Taps)
15. “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night” (from Drum-Taps)
16. “A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown” (from Drum-Taps)
17. “A Sight in Camp in the Day-Break Grey and Dim” (from Drum-Taps)
18. “The Wounded from Chancellorsville, May ’63” (from Memoranda During the War)
19. Walt Whitman to Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Haskell, August 10, 1863 (letter)
20. “Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me” (from Drum-Taps)
21. “Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun” (from Drum-Taps)
22. “Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice” (from Drum-Taps)
23. “Come Up from the Fields Father” (from Drum-Taps)
24. “The Veteran’s Vision” (from Drum-Taps)
25. Walt Whitman to His Mother, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, March 29, 1864 (letter)
26. “Hymn of Dead Soldiers” (from Drum-Taps)
27. “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” (from Drum-Taps)
28. “Abraham Lincoln,” “Murder of President Lincoln,” and “No Good Portrait of Lincoln” (from Memoranda During the War)
29. “Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day” (from Drum-Taps)
30. “When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d,” Sections 1–13 (from Sequel to Drum-Taps)
31. “When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d,” Sections 14–21 (from Sequel to Drum-Taps)
32. “Chanting the Square Deific” (from Sequel to Drum-Taps)
33. “I Heard You, Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ” (from Sequel to Drum-Taps)
34. “Two Brothers, One South, One North” (from Memoranda During the War)
35. “Convulsiveness” and “Three Years Summ’d Up” (from Memoranda During the War)
36. “Reconciliation” (from Sequel to Drum-Taps)
37. “To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod” (from Sequel to Drum-Taps)
38. “Results South—Now and Hence” (from Memoranda During the War)
39. “Ethiopia Saluting the Colors” (from Leaves of Grass, 1881 edition)
40. “The Real War Will Never Get in the Books” (from Memoranda During the War)
Walt Whitman and the Civil War: A Selected Annotated Bibliography