Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman

Table of Contents:

Specimen Days
A Happy Hour's Command
Answer to an Insisting Friend

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
My First Reading--Lafayette

Printing Office--Old Brooklyn
Growth--Health--Work
My Passion for
Ferries
Broadway Sights
Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers
Plays and Operas
Too
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
Down at the Front
After First Fredericksburg
Back to
Washington
Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field
Hospital Scenes and
Persons
Patent-Office Hospital
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
Ambulance Processions
Bad Wounds--The Young

The Most Inspiriting of All War's Shows
Battle of Gettysburg
A
Cavalry Camp
A New York Soldier
Home-Made Music
Abraham Lincoln

Heated Term
Soldiers and Talks
Death of a Wisconsin Officer

Hospitals Ensemble
A Silent Night Ramble
Spiritual Characters Among
the Soldiers
Cattle Droves About Washington
Hospital Perplexity
Down
at the Front
Paying the Bounties
Rumors, Changes, Etc
Virginia

Summer of 1864
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
Boys in the Army
Burial of a Lady Nurse
Female
Nurses for Soldiers
Southern Escapees
The Capitol by Gas-Light
The
Inauguration
Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War
The
Weather--Does It Sympathize with These Times?
Inauguration Ball
Scene at
the Capitol
A Yankee Antique
Wounds and Diseases
Death of President
Lincoln
Sherman's Army's Jubilation--Its Sudden Stoppage
No Good
Portrait of Lincoln
Releas'd Union Prisoners from South
Death of a
Pennsylvania Soldier
The Armies Returning
The Grand Review
Western
Soldiers
A Soldier on Lincoln
Two Brothers, One South, One North

Some Sad Cases Yet
Calhoun's Real Monument
Hospitals Closing

Typical Soldiers
"Convulsiveness"
Three Years Summ'd Up
The
Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up
The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
An
Interregnum Paragraph
New Themes Entered Upon
Entering a Long Farm-Lane

To the Spring and Brook
An Early Summer Reveille
Birds Migrating at
Midnight
Bumble-Bees
Cedar-Apples
Summer Sights and Indolencies

Sundown Perfume--Quailnotes--The Hermit-Thrush
A July After-Noon by the
Pond
Locusts and Katy-Dids
The Lesson of a Tree
Autumn Side-Bits

The Sky--Days and Nights--Happiness
Colors--A Contrast
November 8,
'76
Crows and Crows
A Winter Day on the Sea-Beach
Sea-Shore Fancies

In Memory of Thomas Paine
A Two Hours Ice-Sail
Spring
Overtures--Recreations
One of the Human Kinks
An Afternoon Scene
The
Gates Opening
The Common Earth, the Soil
Birds and Birds and Birds

Full-Starr'd Nights
Mulleins and Mulleins
Distant Sounds
A
Sun-Bath-Nakedness
The Oaks and I
A Quintette
The First Frost--Mems

Three Young Men