FEINBERG/WHITMAN    NOTES and NOTEBOOKS     NOTES -- Misc.      UNDATED War Notes  (DCN 140)
Box 41  Folder 48War Notes A. MSS.  (3p.  8x 20 and 20 x 12 ½ cm.)
One fragment describing a ward in a hospital with its "rows of cots, with
their occupants stretching along each side."  Another, trial pages for a poem
"The long, long solemn trenches", also list of cities to be used in the poem
on trenches; "Fredericksburg, Vicksburgh, trenches of Petersburgh & Richmond,
Gettysburgh."  {140}The [vast] long, long,
solemn trenches the
Has anyone thought who [wh]
has stood [?] one of those trenches.
what a measureless
history [thy??] it held?
What a [solemn pi] 
poem 
stately & [awful]
[poet] mighty & awful
[hymn?] it held?
What a history [it held] there holds
in the [crumbling?] [soil]
contents of trenches
What a poem beyond all
ever written or chantedManassas
Antietam
Fredericksburg
[Chancellors v ]
Wilderness              
Chickahominy
Chattanooga
Vicksburgh
Trenches of Petersburgh
& Richmond
Gettysburgh
All the great oceans of
 battle & all the
rivers & rills & all
the [myriad] wide scattered
[separa] drops[Cases one] A case from Connecticut.
Would you not like [dear reader to see]
[us] to visit for yourself, some cases? [among the hundreds
I have met?] Enter with me this long Ward;
look down its rows of cots, with their occupants
stretching along each side, with the
aisle [down] through the middle.  [Every one of these
cots has its history; every case is a tragic]
[?] epic a [romance a varies ??]