Specimen Days Walt Whitman Specimen Days Table of Contents Specimen Days...........................................................................................................................................................1 Walt Whitman................................................................................................................................................2 A HAPPY HOUR'S COMMAND................................................................................................................8 ANSWER TO AN INSISTING FRIEND.....................................................................................................9 GENEALOGY — VAN VELSOR AND WHITMAN..............................................................................10 THE OLD WHITMAN AND VAN VELSOR CEMETERIES.................................................................11 THE MATERNAL HOMESTEAD............................................................................................................12 TWO OLD FAMILY INTERIORS............................................................................................................13 PAUMANOK, AND MY LIFE ON IT AS CHILD AND YOUNG MAN................................................14 MY FIRST READING. — LAFAYETTE.................................................................................................16 PRINTING OFFICE. — OLD BROOKLYN.............................................................................................17 GROWTH — HEALTH — WORK...........................................................................................................18 MY PASSION FOR FERRIES...................................................................................................................19 BROADWAY SIGHTS..............................................................................................................................20 OMNIBUS JAUNTS AND DRIVERS.......................................................................................................21 PLAYS AND OPERAS TOO.....................................................................................................................22 THROUGH EIGHT YEARS......................................................................................................................23 SOURCES OF CHARACTER — RESULTS — 1860..............................................................................24 OPENING OF THE SECESSION WAR....................................................................................................25 NATIONAL UPRISING AND VOLUNTEERING...................................................................................26 CONTEMPTUOUS FEELING...................................................................................................................27 BATTLE OF BULL RUN, JULY, 1861.....................................................................................................28 THE STUPOR PASSES — SOMETHING ELSE BEGINS......................................................................30 DOWN AT THE FRONT...........................................................................................................................31 AFTER FIRST FREDERICKSBURG........................................................................................................32 BACK TO WASHINGTON.......................................................................................................................33 FIFTY HOURS LEFT WOUNDED ON THE FIELD...............................................................................34 HOSPITAL SCENES AND PERSONS.....................................................................................................35 PATENT−OFFICE HOSPITAL.................................................................................................................36 THE WHITE HOUSE BY MOONLIGHT.................................................................................................37 AN ARMY HOSPITAL WARD................................................................................................................38 A CONNECTICUT CASE.........................................................................................................................39 TWO BROOKLYN BOYS.........................................................................................................................40 A SECESH BRAVE...................................................................................................................................41 THE WOUNDED FROM CHANCELLORSVILLE.................................................................................42 A NIGHT BATTLE, OVER A WEEK SINCE..........................................................................................43 UNNAMED REMAINS THE BRAVEST SOLDIER...............................................................................45 SOME SPECIMEN CASES.......................................................................................................................46 MY PREPARATIONS FOR VISITS.........................................................................................................48 AMBULANCE PROCESSIONS................................................................................................................49 BAD WOUNDS — THE YOUNG............................................................................................................50 THE MOST INSPIRITING OF ALL WAR'S SHOWS.............................................................................51 BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG....................................................................................................................52 A CAVALRY CAMP.................................................................................................................................53 A NEW YORK SOLDIER.........................................................................................................................54 HOME−MADE MUSIC.............................................................................................................................55 ABRAHAM LINCOLN..............................................................................................................................56 HEATED TERM.........................................................................................................................................57 i Specimen Days Table of Contents Specimen Days SOLDIERS AND TALKS...........................................................................................................................58 DEATH OF A WISCONSIN OFFICER.....................................................................................................59 HOSPITALS ENSEMBLE.........................................................................................................................60 A SILENT NIGHT RAMBLE....................................................................................................................61 SPIRITUAL CHARACTERS AMONG THE SOLDIERS.........................................................................62 CATTLE DROVES ABOUT WASHINGTON.........................................................................................63 HOSPITAL PERPLEXITY........................................................................................................................64 DOWN AT THE FRONT...........................................................................................................................65 PAYING THE BOUNTIES........................................................................................................................66 RUMORS, CHANGES, C..........................................................................................................................67 VIRGINIA..................................................................................................................................................68 SUMMER OF 1864....................................................................................................................................69 A NEW ARMY ORGANIZATION FIT FOR AMERICA........................................................................70 DEATH OF A HERO.................................................................................................................................71 HOSPITAL SCENES. — INCIDENTS.....................................................................................................72 A YANKEE SOLDIER..............................................................................................................................73 UNION PRISONERS SOUTH...................................................................................................................74 DESERTERS..............................................................................................................................................75 A GLIMPSE OF WAR'S HELL−SCENES................................................................................................76 GIFTS — MONEY — DISCRIMINATION..............................................................................................77 ITEMS FROM MY NOTE BOOKS...........................................................................................................78 A CASE FROM SECOND BULL RUN....................................................................................................79 ARMY SURGEONS — AID DEFICIENCIES..........................................................................................80