FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE Prose ¨War Memoranda¨(1860). Box 32 Folder 15 A.MS.draft. (DCN19). 175 Deep, #707 War Memorandum: prose. A. MS. (1p. 14 x 22 cm.) Written in ink, with some of the corrections in pencil, on the back of a message form of the American Telegraph Company, to which is pasted (on the bottom) a scrap of paper torn from a notebook, about 200 words: 4 Page 36 No poem sings, nor music sounds, those deeds, [The report, the the official A The Military Not in] No formal general's report, [the formal the book for the] no [newspaper] printed nor print [letter], [the] no book for the library // nor column in the paper [has obtained them], our brave dead unnamed embalms my bravest boys, [my] our boys, [my] our darlings, nor all their proudest warlike deeds.--No picture gives them. No curious eye has seen them. Their very names are lost--[Many] Likes the bravest of them The [best] highest of them, [hav]espent to the last their str[?] life, nature no more allowing-- there they have fallen in the dark woods unknown have fallen (the tide has swept on & left them there to die) have crawled aside crawl to some bush, [perhaps-to] may-be some bush fern, tuft[, to] [over] 175 sheltering a little while, soak ur [?] and there, haply with suffering yet far less than we, life ebbs, the dread last lethargy creeps [over-them over] on winds like a serpent, death glaze [?] he lies [there] dead, unburied unor[?]-- none recks[[[deeds-proud-er-than] there lies their corpse--their corpse--the shifting field of battle changes--no time to mind the dying or the dead-- p. 19 Memorda During th eWar 1871 See Stem19- [?] 4 No poem sings, nor music sounds those deeds, [The report, the official] [Not in][A] [The military] A formal general's report, [The format] [The book for] [The] no [newspaper letter,] no printed nor print nor column in the paper, [The] no book for the library [has obtained them.] embalms our boys, our bravest boys, our darlings, nor all their proudest warlike deeds. - No picture gives them, No currency yet has seen them. Their very names are lost - the bravest of them likes the [best] highest of them, [have] spent to the last their [str?] life nature no more allowing these that have fallen in the dark wood unknown (the tide has swept on & left [?] those to die) crawls to some bush. crawled aside, [perhaps to] may-be [to] some bush ferns tuft - [to] shelter a little while, soaked wi[?] and there, haply with suffering yet far far less than we [?] life ebbs, the dread last lethargy creeps [over them] on winds like a serpent death's glaze[?] he lies [there] dead! [u]Unburied, unwritt[?] none recks - [deeds prouder than] There lies their corpse - the shifting field of battle changes - no time to mind the dying or the dead - No. AMERICAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Time TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON WHICH THIS AND ALL MESSAGES ARE RECEIVED BY THIS COMPANY FOR TRANSMISSION. In order to guard against errors or delays in the transmission or delivery of messages, every message of importance ought to be REPEATED by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received to the station from which it is originally sent. Half the usual price for transmission will be charged for repeating the message, and while this Company will as heretofore, use every precaution to ensure correctness, it will not be responsible for errors or delays in the transmission or delivery of repeated messages beyond FIFTY dollars, unless a special agreement for insurance be made and paid for at the time of sending the message, and the amount of risk specified on this agreement; nor is the Company to be responsible for any error or delay in the transmission or delivery or non-delivery of any unrepeated message BEYOND FIVE DOLLARS, unless in like manner specially insured and amount of risk paid for at the time. No liability is assumed for any error or neglect by any other Company over whose lines this message may be sent to reach its destination. No liability for any errors in cipher messages. CAMBRIDGE LIVINGSTON, Sec'y 145 Broadway, N.Y. E.S. Sanford, Pres't. ______________________186 Send the following Message - subject to the above Conditions: To _______________________________________________ Give address in full Operator's Check, ________________ Please write your Address under the Signature. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.