Specimen
Days
& collect

By WALT WHITMAN,

Author of "LEAVES OF GRASS."

PHILADELPHIA:

DAVID MCKAY,

No. 23 SOUTH NINTH STREET.

1882-'83.

M.

LIBRARY

OF THE

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR

UNIVERSITY.

A4516

COPYRIGHT, 1882.

BY WALT WHITMAN.

All Rights Reserved.

811.3

Welspar

A Happy Day's Command, .

Answer to an Insisting Friend,.

SPECIMEN DAYS.

Genealogy-Van Velsor and Whitman...... The Old Whitman and Van Velsor Cemeteries,

The Maternal Homestead......... Two Old Family Interiors,

Paumanok, and My Life on it as Child and Young Man,

Through Eight Years.........Sources of Character-Results-1860,

Opening of the Secession War.........National Uprising and Volunteering, .

Contemptuous Feeling... Battle of Bull Run, July, 1861,

The Stupor Passes Something Else Begins,

The White House by Moonlight.........An Army Hospital Ward,

A Connecticut Case......... Two Brooklyn Boys,.

A Secesh Brave......... The Wounded from Chancellorsville,

A Night Battle over a Week Since,

Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier.........Some Specimen Cases,

My Preparations for Visits,

Spiritual Characters among the Soldiers.........Cattle Droves about Washingto

Hospital Perplexity,

Down at the Front,

Summer of 1864,

Paying the Bounties......... Rumors, Changes, &c......... Virginia,

A New Army Organization fit for America......... Death of a Hero,

Hospital Scenes-Incidents, .

A Yankee Soldier.........Union Prisoners South,

Deserters.........A Glimpse of War's Hell-Scenes,

Gifts-Money-Discrimination.........Items from My Note Books,.

A Case from Second Bull Run.........Army Surgeons-Aid Deficiencies,

The Blue Everywhere.........A Model Hospital,.

Female Nurses for Soldiers.........Southern Escapees,.

Boys in the Army......... Burial of a Lady Nurse,

The Capitol by Gas-Light......... The Inauguration,