FEINBERG/WHITMAN Box 1 Folder 6 DIARIES, etc. Diaries 1863-64. Hospital books (2v.) (DCN 22) The contrabands, (about 60) just come in, going up 14th street toward the contraband camp - trudging with [the little] many specimens of Africa junior - the baggage wagon behind. ____________________ Was in the Senate when Saulsbury of Delaware made his brief and angry retort to Wilkinson from Minnesota _____________________ Describe the Chamber H. of R - and the Senate Chamber - the looks, the pages etc. (pretty full, and long -) _____________________ The Herald, Times, Cincinnati Gazette, etc. have little offices here. Mr. Winchell is chief of staff of the Times ______________________ Personal description - Sumner - Hale - ______________________ Soldiers, swarms & swarms, waiting for their Pay - no money, some of them, for months & months - delayed, wearied out - scenes around the Paymaster Generals office. 15th & F St Building is full of paymasters offices free and easy chptr When a member ( ) speaks as the [?] members gather around him, standing up without order - cluster in groups - - - a gentleman with well shaped iron-grey hair from Mass -- by 100 worn / 40 org= 0 feet body-- 40 feet high prevaling hue [?] drab & gold - 45 panels - over the speakers chair two Am. flags crossed - Wash on one side - Lafayette on the other - members two by two - ladies off in their gallery green carpet -- Lf. elegantly ornamented door=casings - a way & [well sl] well-sloping gallery - reporter's gallery back of the speaker - a low hubbub & depressed confusion [desks in] horse-shoe of desks where the States of the gt Am Un from Maine to Cal - the clerks busy -- splendid panels of glass with state [???] on the ceiling splendid lead panels in gold and drab - Clock over [?] the door - now a speaker for the newspaper public, nobody gathers about him 21 The old days of Clay, John Randolph, Calhoun, Webster. ----------- A large square=shaped room but without any angular appearance, a room full of cheerful color, a good deal of a golden hue, profusely ornamented around the ceiling and upper walls, all the light coming [in] down from overhead. (through large panels of glass, forty or fifty of them.) ---------------- every one moving about freely - subdued conversation going on every where - & some members reading, others writing - the muffled yet sharp sound of the clapping hands, the call for one of the little imps of pages - the lower walls of the room of light gray, relieved with figures of a deeper hue - ---------- The galleries are well=filled plenty of common soldiers, quite a number evidently convalescents from the hospitals Walt Whitman Missionary to Hospital, Camp & Battle ground Miss Catherine Kreider [Miss Susan A. Voorhees] Half Moon, Centre County Penn [Metuchen Middlesex Co] [New Jersey] [Washington] [Thursday afternoon, Jan 8] ['6?] [Meeting Jim Cornell (about] Andrew.) [visits to the hospital, the cots, the little] tables, the parents com'g to see them in my nook in Major Hapgood’s office, [am in good spirits again,] hope if the army don’t move to go down there again must not worry about George for I hope the worst is over — must keep [up] up a stout heart [have written twice to them, and sent paper.] Have seen Swinton &c. My opinion is to stop the war now. Awful expensive here (38 cts for beer) [have been to] got the Eagles all right and sent several to camp, to George, and others. Washington - describe -(on a big spacious plan &c) public buildings of white marble, with lots of columns, &c. I am first rate in health, as ever — specify the letters I have wrote home Papers rec’d. Mr Mrs. Journal of items - names &c - of the sick & wounded from day's to day's visits at the Hospital - cases, peculiarities &c - - (the saluting business,) _________________________________________________ Pennsylvania avenue - a walk through - Gurowski - Gen. McDowell - the shops, Willards - the hackmen with whips in hand - the cars running, (giving you transfer tickets - (from the Capitol up to the Treasury building) - __________________________________________________ I heard Butler make his speech the other evening at the National &c [?] __________________________________________________ Restaurants, good but costly, (the 38 ct ale episode) __________________________________________________ Officers, officers, officers, in all directions __________________________________________________ Smithsonian Institute - at night, under unfavorable circumstances - all dark - pokerish to walk through there in the dark __________________________________________________ Hospital book 12 [Signature:] Walt Whitman 1864 Received by Horace L. Larabil [?] Jan 21 1891 [ Writing is in pencil, too light to read.] ward C bed 45 - May 24 '64 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. Lawrence court New York - the negroes with their peculiar bed 9 - Ward D - May 26, '64 James M Achos co C 14th Indiana ------ Mrs Nancy Achor Raglesville on 12th Davis county wounded in Indiana right elbow bone taken out bed 9 - ward D - May 26 '64 James M Achor co C 14th Indiana Mrs. Nancy Achor Raglesville Davis county Indiana [*0n 12th wounded in right elbow bone taken out*] Capt Alexander McCallum Co E 8th Penn Cav tell Corp Middleton to send things Darius Lillie Co G 44th New York Armory building ward 2 upper room Armory bed 49 wounded in right breast Mrs. Lucinda Lillie Appalachian Tioga Co NY tell her to send address of Charles here (send a little money) brother in law John Morton Oswego Tioga County Tell him where he is & how wounded--sisters name Mary wounded on 16th May nothing to transcribe Nothing to transcribe Culpepper Va Feb 9th 1864 Just immediately after sunset I am standing on a hill west of the town, looking at the long clear cut outline of the Blue Mountains against the western sky. A dark slaty 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 In all directions are campfires especially those of the wagon trains, from all sides the slow stream of 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 sweet calm sunset here every thing so broad with an opening view from where I stand. The new moon hangs up there just over all April 7th '64 [?] [?] Penn Av warmish forenoon after the storm of past few days -- Sights: a squad of a couple of hundred conscripts and surrounded with strong guard armed, & others interspersed 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 upright [seats] 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 [their yellow] - Handsome, reckless American young men some eighty of them [?] [?] gaily riding up the avenue upright posture in their saddles, their browsed & bearded young faces, their every swaying to the motion of their horses, their carbines in their [?] their right knee. [the yellow] - Handsome, reckless American young men some eighty of them [?] gaily rode up the avenue then the tinkly bells of the cars the [word scratched out] 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. - the [different] soldiers, all sorts, crippeles - the darkeys - the soldiers, [by] singly, or by twos & threes with their worn faces pleased, [pleased] going home, some with black [leather] gloves leather bags in their hands, [the great] a long train of govern wagons [in the st] passing along. officers horses tied in front of the drinking saloons, or held [*battle of Friday 6th*] Saw Corp Sanders 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 hip [bad] rather bad, [but] yet not serious to [???] [*ord of co F killed Lake, [by] of [by] little darkies, the [returning] soldiers returning from furlough. [samy?] Lt. Brown of co F shot in shoulder bed 51 -- ward J - Finley [*I find this in my notes*--I suppose from "chinning" with some soldier in hospital*] (?ract?ent) When Kilpatrick with his forces were cut off at Brandy Station (last of Sept. '63 or thereabout) & the bands struck up Yankee Doodle, there were not cannon enough in the southern Confederacy to keep him in --this was last of Sept. '63 (or thereabout) --when Meade fell back--Kilpatrick had his Cavalry division (perhaps 5000 men 9 brigades) the [rebs?] in much superior force had them surrounded -- things looked exceedingly desperate -- Kilpatrick had two bands ordered his --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 loss of 20 [men?] --about 2 in the afternoon [Wed?]13 - Ward K Ira Hall co (?)93 NY Vol sister Mrs Harrison Bemis Grandville, Washington Co NY wounded in right arm nothing serious hit on Thursday [*send #10*] Gemuth ga-mute eu Gemüthlich ga-mute-lisch -full of soul heart manliness affection bed 33 Ward B May 8th '64 Wm H Miller co E 8th Penn Cav. Gen Gregg's old reg. Bridgeville Sussex co Del gsw in Chest - w in left arm father lives in Bridgeville Del Lincoln H F Brigham 21st Mass Lincoln Valentine Fisher F 51st NY [army] Dan'l Johnson B. 51st Penn Mt Pleasant John Hall, F. 51st N.Y. Finley Corp Frederick Sanders K 51st NY " Eugene Dilley H " Jas Cremer A " Serg Jas C Brown A " Sergt John E Gibbs H " John Gafney G " Ephraim S Warden D Campbell " Jas O'Neil G " John Huber B Judiciary Mark Deary C 51st Penn Harewood Wm Cohen B 21st Mass P J Dixon B 21st Mass bed 40 - Ward a May 24 James Hague Co H - 1st Delaware Mrs Sally M Carter 1311 Rodman street Philadelphia wounded in right lung - come up, 6th - [here] last night in [*bed 59 May 12 '64*] [*ward 6 Finley Hosp*] George L Farnum co C 11th Mass George J Farnum Rumford Centre Oxford Co Maine Shot in left hand bet 3d & [4th?] fingers hit Friday commissary wagons with thin --- six=mule teams, driven with the single rein the different calls --- "boots & saddles" inquire of cavalry man what are the calls in cavalry ah ["that" scratched out] if it might prove an omen & prophecy for this ----- and the fine little out shows[?] ---- the signs of the most excellent good manliness of the world Around through the landscape for miles in pleasant situations are huge clusters of wagon camps with the white covered wagons standing in long rows. Their little villages of tents, log & mud huts, &c. There [are dozens of these little [improvised?]] I see them in all directions. Some of the camps are quite large. I amuse myself by exam'g one of them a mile or so off through a strong glass. Some of the men are cook'g, clean'g their clothes, others washing, smok'g gaily others play'g ball, or loung'g about. [by] [The] I watch the varied performance long. It is better than any play. Near by are squads drill'g. - just below me is a collection of hospital tents with the yellow flag elevated on a stick and [?] in the breeze Two discharged men are just being 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) Ward A May 14 Jesse Mullery age 20 Co K 15th New Jersey Shot through shoulder ball in lung (ball still in probabl near lung) lost right finger father Wm Mullery Vernon p o Sussex Co N J. brother Sergt James Mullery Co K 15th N J squads of [?] red legs are drill'g; I suppose some of the new men of the Brooklyn [?] They march off, with muskets over their shoulders the bellowing unmusical screech of the mule, off just below me are some [?] soldiers squar'g off logs to build a small log house --- they chop away & the noise of the axe sounds good. The thin blue smoke rises from camp fires W A Croffut Rochester Daily [Dem] Democrat Rochester NY Culpepper looks like a place of some 3000 inhabitants - 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 the long ranging Blue Mountains, are very plain look quite near though from thirty to fifty miles distant, the snow in grey splotches upon them — The show is fascinating I see a great eagle sail'g with poised wings [through the air] quite low 5-5-2 G H Col 7 N Y agent Memoranda of game of 20 questions & 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 Charles H Harris Co F 4th Vermont bed 35--ward A May 13 '64 James P Crosier bed 5 - Ward K May 2 ' 64 James Crosier Halifax centre W[y]indham co Vermont ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [*? left arm hit at elbow*] Ward C bed 30 - May 13 Cavalier Poland Co A 18th Penn Cav [Father] Hamilton Poland Belton Mo Marshall Co West Va mother only [?] 856 1863 Washington Notebook. A.MS.s. (8p. 20 1/2 x 12 1/2 cm.) Written in ink and pencil on sheets of folded white stationary, glued to form an 8-page notebook, 670 words: [1] The contrabands, (about 60) just come in, going up 14th street, toward the contraband camps--trudging with sundry specimens of [the little] Africa junior--the baggage wagon behind. Was in the Senate when Saulsbury of Delaware made his brief and angry retort to Wilkinson from Minnesota [*See His II? 25 Ex. Ceta? 1855?*] Describe the Chamber H. of R--and the Senate Chamber--the looks, the pages &c. (pretty full, [?] and long - ) [23 [over] 857 The Herald, Times, Cincinnati Gazette, &c. have little offices here--Mr. Winchell is chief of staff of the Times --- Personal descriptions -- Sumner - Hale - --- Soldiers, swarms & swarms, waiting for their pay--no money, some of them, for months & months-- delayed, wearied out--scenes around the paymaster generals office, 15th & F st. Building is full of Paymaster offices / [2] [Blank, except for a hand or finger ?] [3] When a member (free and easy style) speaks as the g members gather around him, standing up without order --clustering in groups -- -- -- a gentleman with iron-grey hair [more] [*Washington notebook: 2*] [*858*] from Mass well shaped -- room 140 or 50 feet by 100 35 or 40 feet high - prevailing hue [g] drab & gold --45 panels -- over the speakers chair two Am flags crossed --Wash on one side--Lafayette on the other--members two by two-- (ladies off in their gallery [*^*]green carpet--[eg]-- elegantly ornamented [*[?]*] door=casings--a roomy & [well-sl] well sloping gallery--reporter's gallery back of the speaker-- a low hubbub & depress'd confusion --[desks in] horse=shoe of desks -------------------------------------------------------------------- where the States of the g't Wn[*[?]*]Un from Maine to Cal--the clerks splendid panels of glass with state arms busy--splendid dead panels of the [*^*] ceiling [*^*]in gold and drab--clock over [*[over]*] 859 the door--now a speaker for [hr] the newspaper public. nobody gathers about him / [4] [Blank.] [5] The old days of Clay, John Randolph, Calhoun, Webster. A large square=shaped room but without any angular appearance,--a room full of cheerful color, a good deal of a golden hue, profusely ornamented around the ceiling and upper walls, all the light coming [in] down from overhead, (through large panels of glass, forty or fifty of them.) every one moving about freely-- subdued conversation going on every where-- some members reading, others writing muffled, yet sharp --the sound of the clapping hands, [more] 860 Washington Notebook: 3 the call fot [*?*] one of the little imps of pages--the lower walls of the room of light gray, relieved with figures of a deeper hue-- -------------- the galleries are well=filled plenty of common soldiers, quite a number evidently convalescents from the Hospitals / [6] Walt Whitman Missionary to Hospital, Camp, & Battle ground / [7] Miss Catherine Kreider [Miss Susan A. Voorhees] Half Moon, Centre county Penn [Hetuchen Middlesex co New Jersey] [over] 861 [Washington, Thursday afternoon, Jan 8 '53 [?] Meeting Jim Cornell, (about Andrew,) visits to the hospital, the cots, the little] tables, the parent come to see them &c. my nook in Major Hapgood's office. [am in good spirits again,] hope if the army don't move to go down there again. Must not worry about George, for I hope the worst is over--must keep [up] up a stout heart [have written twice to Han, and sent paper.] have seen Swinton &c. My opinion is [to] stop the war now. awful expensive here -- (38 cts for beer) [have been to] Get the Eagles all right, and sent several to camp, to George, and others. Washington--describe--(on a big spacious plan &c) [more] 862 Washington Notebook: 4 public buildings of white marble, with lots of columns, &c. I am first rate in health, as ever -- Specify the letters I have wrote home Papers rec'd. Mr Mrs. / [8] Journal of items--names &c--of the sick & wounded, from day's to day's visit at the Hospital--cases, peculiarities &c-- -(the saluting business,) ------------------------------------------------------------ Pennsylvania avenue--a walk through-- Curowski--Gen. McDowell--the shops, Willards--the hackmen with whips in hand--the cars running, (giving you transfer tickets--from the Capitol up to the Treasury building) --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- [over] 863 I heard Butler make his speech the other evening at the National &c &c ----------------------------------------------------------- Restaurants, good but costly. (the 38ct ale episode) ------------------------------------------------------- Officers, officers, officers, in all directions ------------------------------------------------------------ Smithsonian Institute--at night, under unfavorable circumstances--all dark-- pokerish to walk through there in the dark ------------------------------------------------------------- Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.