FEINBERG/WHITMAN DIARIES, etc. ADDRESS Books 1876-86 (3v.) (DCN54) 1515 1864 Hospital Book 12. A.MS.s. [(8] 6p. 12 1/2 x 10 cm.) Written in pencil, with 5 of the pages in ink, in a home-made notebook, with Traubel's notation on front cover (Received by Horace L Traubel from Walt Whitman on Jan 21 1891), entitled on cover of yellow paper: Hospital book 12 ----------------- Walt Whitman ------------------ 1864 with writing on 37 of the 88 pages. Flyleaf, pasted to front and back covers, is blank. [1 Page full of writing, but illegible due to smearing of pencilling] [2] Ward C bed 45 - May 24 '64 [over] 1516 Kenneth Townsend co C 106th New York--wounded 13th in left leg below knee no bones fractured--come up yesterday from Fredericksburgh Mrs Elisabeth Townsend Depeyster St Laurence court New York [3]--the negroes with their peculiar [4] bed 9--Ward D--May26 '64 James M Achor co C 14th Indiana Mrs Nancy Achor Raglesville Davis county Indiana wounded on 12th in right elbow bone taken out [5-6 sheet clipped out] [7 blank] [8] Capt Alexander McCallum Co E 8th Penn Cav tell Corp Middleton to send things [9 blank] [10] Darius Lillie Co G 44th New York wounded in right breast Armory building Ward 2d Upper room Armory bed 49 Mrs Lucinda Lillie Appalachi[a]n Tioga Co N Y tell her to send address of Charles here (send a little money) [11] brother in law John Morton Owego Tioga county tell him he is & how wounded--sisters name Mary wounded on 16th May [12-20 blank] [more] 1517 Hospital Book 12: 2 21 Pulpepper Va Feb 9th 1864 Jus immediately after sunset I am standing on a hill west of the town, looking at the long clear cut outline of the Blue Mountain against the western sky. A [slaty dark] blue mist somewhat smoky hangs all along the sides of the Mountains. It is a scene of surpassing & peculiar beauty. I look at the range of over a hundred miles of the Blue Ridge, stretching away to the north 22 blank 23 In all directions are camps, especially those of the wagon trains; from all sides the slow stream od smoke, made by the camp fires, the men cooking supper. From [all sides] many quarters in the still evening, the sound of the axe, the men chopping wood. It is a [broad] sweet calm, sunset here, every thing so broad, with an open view from where I stand - the mown hays up there, just over all 24-25 blank 26 April 7th '64 Waling down Penn av Warmish forenoon after the storm of past few days Sights a squad of a couple of hundred conscripts, and surrounded with a strong guard armed, & [over] 1518 others intersperses between the ranks the govt has learnt wisdom from its experiences: (there are hundreds of bounty jumpers at large, & eighty thousand deserters.) Then a cavalry company, evidently service-hardened men. Mark their [27-30 torn out] [31] upright posture in their saddles, their bronzed & bearded young faces, their easy swaying to the motion of their horses, their carbines in their ? by their right knees - Handsome, reckless American young men. Some eight of them xx gaily riding up the avenue [32 blank] [33] then the tinkling bells of the cars, - the shops of the avenue, some of them very fine, (show swords, straps for the different ranks, gilt hat-cords with acorns, & other military vendings abound in the windows;) the great hotels, the Jew shops, the patrol passing along in their sky blue clothes. [34 blank] [35] -- the soldiers, all sorts, cripples, - the darkeys--the soldiers with their worn faces pleased, singly, or by twos & threes going home, some with black glazed- [more] 1519 Hospital Book 12: 3 leather bags in their hands, [the great tr] long train of govern wagons [in the st] passing along. officers horses tied in front of the drinking saloons, or held [36] saw Corp Sanders battle of Friday 6th Lt Sturges, co K killed - 2 men co K killed, 4 wounded Le Gendre wounded right through the bridge of nose no of reg't killed 40 wounded Fred McReady is wounded in the hip, [had] rather bad, [but] Yet not serious to ord of Co F killed Lake, g of [37] by little darkies, the [return] soldiers returning from furlough. sa Lt Brown of co F shot in shoulder bed 51--ward T--Finley [38-39 blank] [40] I find this in my notes--I suppose from "chinning" with some soldier in hospital truculent When Kilpatrick with his forces were cut off at Branby Station (last of Sept. '63, or thereabouts) & the bands struck up Yankee Doodle there were not cannon enough in the Southern Confederacy to keep him in [41] --this was lasy of Sept. '63 (or thereabouts)--when Meade fell [over] 1520 back--Kilpatrick held his his cavalry durious [?] (perhaps 5000 from 9 brigades), the rebs in much superior force had them surrounded--things looks exceedingly desperate--Kilpatrick had two bands ordered his [42 blank] [43] --They joined, & played Yankee Doodle, it went through the men like lightning, every man seemed a giant, they charged & cut their way out with the tops of 20 men--about 2 in the afternoon [44] Ira Hall bed 13 - Ward K co I 93 N Y Vol Sister Mrs Harrison Bemis Grandville, Washington Co N Y. wounded in right arm nothing serious hit on Thursday send $10 [45 blank] [46] Gemuth / ga-mu eu te/ Gemuthlich ga-mute-lisch --ful of soul heart manliness affection [47] Wm H Millis bed 33 Ward B May 8th '64 co E 8th Penn Cav. Gen Gregg's old reg Bridgevillw Sussex co Del g s w in chest - w in left arm father living in Bridgeville Del [more] 1521 Hospital Book 12: 4 [48 blank] [49] Lincoln H F Brigham 21st Mass Lincoln Valentine Fisher F 51st N Y Armory Dan'l Johnson B 51st Penn Mt Pleasant John Hall, F 51st N. Y. Finley Corp Frederick Sanders K 51st N Y " Eugene Dilley H " Jas Cremer A " Serg Jas C Bron A " Serg't John E Gibbs H " John Gafney G " Ephraim S Warden D Campbell " Jas O'Neil G " John Huber B Judiciary Mark Dearing C 51st Penn Harewood Wm Cohen B 21st Mass P J Dixon B 21st Mass [over] 1522 [50-61 blank] [62] bed 59 May 12 '64 Ward of Finley Hosp George L Farnum co C 11th Mass George J Farnum Rumford centre Oxford co Main shot in left hand, hit 3d and 4th fingers hit Friday [63] bed 40 - Ward A May 24 James Hague Co H - 1st Delaware Mrs Sally M Carter 1311 Rodman street Philadelphia wounded in right lung 6th- been in come up last night [64 blank] [65-66 pages cut out] [67 blank Notebook here turned over and started from other end. Page numbering continued, but actually reading from back.] [68] James P Crosier bed 5 Ward K May 2 '64 James Crosier Halifax centre Wyndham co Vermont Ward C, bed 30 - May 13 Cavalier Poland Co A 18th Penn Cav ?st left arm hit at elbow brother Hamilton Poland Belton P O Marshall co West Va mother not [?] living [69 blank] [70] Thomas B Low 6th Invalid corps boy that died of brain fever in Ward K 19 years March 7th '64 brother George W L Low Lyme Ridge Penn [71] 552 G st Col ? N Y agent [more] 1523 Hospital Book 12: 5 [72] Memoranda of gamw of 20 questions x vegetable with a mineral in it not good to eat is in this room part of the furniture both useful & orn not wood not with illumination Harden C Harris Brattleboro' Vermont Charley H Harris Co F, 4th Vermont bed 35 - ward A May 13th '64 [73] W A Croffut Rochester Daily Dem Democrat Rochester N Y [74-75 pages cut off] [76] Culpepper looks like a place of some 3000 wholeland [?]-- situation of marked beauty, must be one of the pleasantest towns in Virginia--even now dilapidated, fences [torn all] much broken down windows out, -- it [looks] has the remains of much beauty. I stand on an eminence overlooking the town, though within its limits. To the west thelong ranging Blue Mountains are very plain look quite near though from thirty to fifty miles distant, the snow in grey splotches upon them --The snow is fascinating --I see [over] 1524 a great eagle sailing with poised wings [*through the air*] quite low [77] Ward A May 14 Jesse Mullery age 20 co K 15th New Jersey shot through shoulder ball in lung lost right finger (ball still in probably near lung) father Wm Mullery Vernon p o Sussex co N J. brother Sergt James Mullery co K 15th N J [78] squads [men] xxx of red legs are drilling; I suppose some of the new men of the Brooklyn 14th--they march off, with muskets over their shoulders--the bellows unmusical screech of the mule.-- off just below me are some [men] soldiers squaring off logs to build a small log house--they chop away & the noise of the axe sounds good - the thin blue smoke rising from camp fires [79 blank] [80] --just below me is a collection of hospital tents with the yellow flag elevated on a stick, and moving in the breeze. Two discharged men are just leaving one so weak he can hardly crawl, the other is stronger & carries his musket. They move slowly along & down the muddy road toward the depot The scenery is full of breadth, spread on the most generous scale. What capacity here for products, improvements, human life & expansion. (Every where in Virginia this thought fills one) [more] 1525 Hospital Book 12: 6 [81 blank] [82] Around the landscape for miles, in pleasant situations. are huge clusters of wagon camps with the white covered wagons standing in long rows. Then little villages of tents, long & mud huts, &c. There [are dozens] scores [of these little improved] I see them in all directions. Some of the camps are quite large. I amuse myself by examining [?] one of them, a mile or so off, through a strong glass. Some of the men are cooking, others washing cleaning their clothes others playing ball, smoking heartily [?] or lounging about. [The] I watch the varied performances long. It is better than any play. Near by are squads drilling. [83] ah [that] if it might prove an omen & prophecy for this ----- and the fine little outshows, [signs] the signs of the most excellent good manliness of the world [84] --heard the men return the other night, heard the shout, & went out to hear what was the matter -- scene at paying off--men going home men chopping wood, the sound of the axe negroes, crows, mud, some fine houses -- droves & pens of cattle -- [over] 1526 Gen Meade absent, Sedgwick in command 85 blank 86 commissary wagons with their - six-mule teams, driven with the single rein -- the different calls - "boots & saddles" inquire of the cavalry men what are the calls in cavalry -- Dec 11, '77 - Car 111 - John Nutter, Dyspepsia, English stock (father an opera singer) born in Richmond -- been a foot runner - horse fancier - married - been driving 6 mos - H. CUTLER, PRACTICAL OPTICIAN 310 S. 5th st. Established 1819. 6 *710 DY Kilgore 394 4 Powelton Ave West Phil- Baring St. Car on Market Office 605 Walnut Ivan G Michels. Ella Wright Hirby's picture at Jayne's - 624 Arch get "Manual for Nursing" 12 mo, 143pp. G P Putram's Sons New York also "Cerebral Hyperamia" by Dr Wm H Hammond 12 mo. 108pp. G P Putram's Sons NY Nota-Bene's (name for a book) [???] A Layer [Cou??tou] Camden + Atlantic RR March 2 '78 Abraham Lincoln that the practice mechanics. [farm??] (see printed slip) Elwood L-[Griscom] (Broadway Coach - Camden March '78) Louis [?] Wagner (RR news agent) No. 421 Taylors Ave Camden, N.J. Augustus E. A. Johnston Abraham Lincoln that the practice mechanics, farmer (see printed slip) George. W. Dowley (Conductor 120 Car-Union March '78 Phil!) James Huneker 1711 Race st.- (young man that came to see me abt April 18 in Camden) Abraham Lincoln that the practice mechanics, farmer (see printed slip) Wm M. F. Round "Rosecroft" Still River - Wm. M.F. Round "Rosecroft" Still River - Worcester Co - Mass - Patrick A Connelly. hat bands Horsmans 5th & Cherry Charlotte Pendleton Cincinnati Charlotte Pendleton Cincinnati Ohio Craig Lippinscott 715 Market St Philadephia PA. Mrs. Gilchriss Round House Hotel Northampton Mass:. Chas. F. Bender 562 Berkley St. Camden NJ. So 4th - Phil perfumes 20 '26 restaurant good Democratic } 40 50 4th St Mrs. John Bigelow Highland Falls Orange Co New York Them. Then hum Erastus Brainard [???] Mrs Sarah Knight Glea Elg /10 Howard Co Maryland Palm Soap Koone. Van Hooge & Co Phila! Mrs Loyd's grandson Joseph Van Stiver Oriver 105 Union - Phil Feb '78 Hudson Greenleaf Phil boy early in May Cherry blossoms pear " almond " - early [*wild*] violets Middle of May. apple blossoms [*the cedar apples*] dog wood [*The pretty little clusters of pine seeds*] wild honey-suckle Latter middle of May white [black] blackberry blossoms [Straw] wild strawberry in the woods [*low in the ground*] profusion of little white or yellow wildflowers Joshua Killingbeck 449 Benson Henry Whitall Phillipsburg N.Y. 7 400 4 7 1600 228 7/400 57143 444 228572 228572 - Ringtown [Reading road] get ticket for Ringtown Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday Louis Wagner depot Train leaves 945 am gets there at 235 put in Indians Navajo Apache Pueblo glasses. at Cooper's Sept 8 '86 No.11 Allen Leslie Belleville Apac Pueblo glasses at Coopers Sept 8 '86 No. 11 Allen Leslie Belleville Pueblo glasses at Coopers Sept 8 '86 No 11 straw hats done at 203 Race glasses at Coopers Sept 8 '86 No. 11 birthdays Harry Stafford 23 March Mrs S 4th April Window shades 406 Arch St Ristine Gold & Silver Plater of Watches, Jewelry etc 806 Race Two Rivulets of Songs addenda to LEAVES OF GRASS of the condition, scenes, to before the war make it more graphic, clear - make it brief [Certainly] of course [It is quite certain] my friends that I shall not be able to tell you anything truly new at least in the way for facts or events - anything but for what you knew before [at any rate] [facts or events] But our history or the whole world these facts or events existing [is a favorite notion of] mine what are [only] [as] they more than the font of types, the letters in their boxes in the case? it Death of Lincoln finish & Condense the preparatory description of the condition, scenes, etc. before the war Make it more graphic, clear - make it brief [Certainly] Of course [It is quite certain] my friends [that] I shall not be able to tell you any truly new but at least in the way of what events you already knew before - [at any rate rate facts or events] But our history or the whole world these facts, or events, existing [is a favorite notion of mine] which are [as only] more than the font of types, the letters in their boxes in the case? it What in compose [but] what is set up out of them [that is] is it not? - [of main importance] that is important. Dr Thomas 1807 Chestnut st P H Polen Wyoming Luzerne Co. Pa. - Please call at 431 Stevens St. & gets shoes to Milliard Shute I'd I'll make the Songs of the Nation - [who may] let pass the "Laws" or leads to "War" who may. Old Proverb. I'll make the Songs of The States, I'd make the Songs of the Nation - whoe'er may - who make the laws or lead to war, they may Arch street Perfumery - 510 Photo Materials & Frames } 624 Buttons - 804 Globes & school furniture } above 12th Arch street Perfumery -540 Photo Materials & frames } 624 Buttons - 804 Globes & school furniture } above 12th Two Rivulets of Songs Sequeling Leaves of Grass Letter from Walt Whitman Gossip & Going around A run across Central Jersey Rubber goods Tillinghast 12 so 2d st Phila Two Rivulets of Songs Sequeling Leaves of Grass Letter from Walt Whitman Gossip & Going around A run across Central Jersey Rubber goods Tillinghast 12 so 2d st Phila Mrs Gilchrist 39 Somerset St Boston In the summer, in the rush of excursions, the streets + spaces Never did the place look Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.