FEINBERG/WHITMAN     LITERARY FILE  Prose  "A Connecticut Case" (1863?)  New York Weekly Graphic  A.MS. draft
Box 32 Folder 20This your man in bed 25, in H.D.B. of 
company B. 27th Connecticut. [He was
born and raised at] His folk live at Northford near New 
Haven. [Though?] not more than 21 or thereabouts He has knocked around the
world [a little] considerable by sea and land —
[had] has seen [a little] some fighting.—[altogether is a
young man that any one would like.]
I have asked him [once several times] one time and another what
I could do for him — if he did not
 want a little money &c?  No, he answered. He [had
a] had all he needed.—has money.—Once, when he
got very low, he [thought] said if I could
get him a small  home- made
rice pudding, he thought he could eat it.
A noble gentle Washington lady (Mrs. O'C.)
 hearing this made the rice pudding and I took
 it up to him. He told me afterward 
he lived upon it for three or four
 days. He is a good [true] [simply?] American young man.  I gave him a [?] as a keepsake. One gets a personal attachment 
to [some of these] such young fellows. 
Then to attend to some of my little commissions, 
first referring to [?] my memoranda.
Bed[*1830*]
1863 ?  A Connecticut Case. A.MS. (1p.  20 x 12 1/2 cm.)

Written in ink 0n a piece of lined stationery, embossed turned
sideways, without heading or date, 213 words:

This young man in bed 25, is H. D. B. of..... (Transcription 
not made.)

[9Published in New York Weekly Graphic in Memorada During
the War, and in Specimen Days, p. 32.  In Floyd Stovall's edn.
of Specimen Days, p. 42.]