FEINBERG/WHITMAN
NOTES and NOTEBOOKS  NOTES -- Literary 1861-86  Memoranda of War
Box 39 Folder 25272
1881 1886?  June Memorand of Ware: prose. A.MS.(1p/ 23 x 12½ cm.)

Written in ink on two sheets of paper pasted together, one of 
them the back of a discarded first draft of a letter by Whitman
to Osgood, and pasted on it is a clipping (Two million three
hundred and thirty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty-one
patriots voluntarily left their homes, their families and their
peaceful pursuits to defend upon battlefield and over swelling
wave the principle then submitted to decision under the dread
arbitrament of war. Of this vast number, 360,000 graves in the 
national cemeteries mark the number of those killed in battle,
and dying in hospitals, upon roadsides, in prisons, as a result 
of woods, of disease, of hardships, of exposure or of maltreatment.'),
33 words:

Men of War
June 2 '81
There are buried in the 80 National Military Cemeteries over
300,000 dead soldiers, nearly half of them marked "unknown"
[Below clipping:] Gen Logan's Speech  New York May 31 '86Men of War
June 2 '81
There are buried in the 80
National Military Cemeteries
over 300,000 
dead soldiers, nearly 
half of them marked 
"unknown"
Two million three hundred and 
thirty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty-one
patriots voluntarily left their homes, 
their families and their peaceful pursuits to
defend upon battle and over the swelling
wave the principle then submitted to decision 
under the dread arbitrament of war.
Of this vast number 360,000 graves in the 
national cemeteries mark the number of
those killed in battle, and dying in hospitals, 
upon roadsides, in prisons, as the result of 
wounds, of disease, of hardships, of exposure
or of maltreatment. 
Gen Logan's Speech  
New York 
May 31 '86promptness.  I have to [?]
[thank] offer you the 
[?] following:  

Your terms however are 
not satisfactory to me.