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Tag Archives: Walt Whitman
Huzzah! …And The War Came to the Yankees, Part 1
Despite the messages, threats, and concerns, brave little Fort Sumter held on. The waters were cold, the food was minimal, and information even more scarce than the food. Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, had moved his group of Army regulars … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Civilian, Common Soldier
Tagged 11th NY Fire Zouaves, 1861, Elmer Ellsworth, Fort Sumter, Northern recruiting, the-war-came-series, Walt Whitman
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Artillery: Crossing a Ford
Walt Whitman wrote a short, evocative poem called “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” that has stayed with me for many years: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands, They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark … Continue reading
Silent Death: Dysentery, Disease and Sickness
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Michael Aubrecht Future years will never know the seething hell and black infernal background and it is best they should not. —Poet Walt Whitman, on the misery he witnessed in hospitals and camps … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Common Soldier, Medical
Tagged army camps, camp fever, disease, Dr. L.J. Wilson, dysentery, medical field, sickness, Walt Whitman
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Baseball In The Blue And Gray (Part 2)
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author Michael Aubrecht for Part 2 of his article. (You can find Part 1 here.) It has been disputed for decades whether Union General Abner Doubleday was in fact the “father of the modern game.” … Continue reading
The Charles F. Jarrett Civil War Paymaster’s Chest
Today, we are pleased to welcome guest author Roger Futrell Part one Former Confederate Quartermaster clerk Charles F. Jarrett, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, brought an iron paymaster’s chest home from the Civil War.[1] The chest survives.[2] A similar paymaster’s chest is … Continue reading
O Captain! My Captain!
There are many excellent reasons why Walt Whitman is considered the poet laureate of the American Civil War. His poetic style is much closer to that of the 20th century’s free verse rather than the labored rhyme schemes so popular … Continue reading
ECW Continues to Emerge
Weave in, My Hardy Life by Walt Whitman Weave in, weave in, my hardy life, Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come, Weave in red blood, weave sinews in like ropes, the senses, sight weave … Continue reading
Death of a Hero
I wonder if I could ever convey to another–to you, for instance, Reader dear–the tender and terrible realities of such cases, (many, many happen’d,) as the one I am now going to mention……..Stewart C. Glover, Co. E., Fifth Wisconsin–was wounded, … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles, Books & Authors, Civil War Events, Civilian, Common Soldier, Medical, Memory, Personalities
Tagged Battle of the Wilderness, C. Glover, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, John Glover, Memory, Sesquicentennial, the Wilderness, Walt Whitman, Wisconsin
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A Leg for Anse to Walk On
Despite all the horrors of Civil War combat, many soldiers feared a visit to a place even more loathsome than the battlefront—the field hospital. Given adequate time, a skilled doctor could perform complicated surgery to extract bullets or repair damage, but … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Medical
Tagged 121st New York, Anson Ryder, Petersburg, Sixth Corps, The Breakthrough, Walt Whitman
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Specimen Days (The Inauguration) by Walt Whitman
March 4th.–The President very quietly rode down to the Capitol in his own carriage, by himself, on a sharp trot, about noon, either because he wish’d to be on hand to sign bills, or to get rid of marching … Continue reading
