GJatnell Hmueratti} iGthrary Jltljara, 2Jtai lack BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF HENRY W. SAGE 1891 Cornell University Library PS 3202 1897 Complete prose works / 3 1924 022 212 900 The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022212900 Complete Prose PForks PHILADELPHIA: DAVID McKAY, Publisher, 1022 Market Street. 1897. CoFYKIGHT, 1881, 1888, 1891, By WALT WHITMAN. All rights reserved. CONTENTS. SPECIMEN DA VS. PAGE A Happy Day's Command, 7 Answer to an Insisting Friend) 8 (Genealogy' — Van Velsor and Whitman The Old Whitman and Van Velsor Cemeteries, 9 The Maternal Homestead Two Old Family Interiors, zi Paumanok, and My Life on it as Child and Young Man, xz My First Reading — Lafayette, 14 ^Printing Office— Old Brooklyn, i S ^Growth— Health— Work My Passion for Ferries, . . » 16 Broadway Sights, 17 , Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers, 18 Plays and Operas too 19 Through Eight Years Sources of Character — Results — 1860 20 { Opening of the Secession War National Uprising and Volunteering, 21 Contemptuous Feeling Battle of Bull Run, July, 1861, 23 The Stupor Passes — Something Else Begins, 25 Down at the Front After First Fredericksburg, 26 Back to Washington 27 Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field 28 Hospital Scenes and Persons, 29 Patent-Office Hospital, 30 pThe White House by Moonlight An Army Hospital Ward, 31 A Connecticut Case Two Brooklyn Boys, 32 ASecesh Brave.... The Wounded from Chancellorsville, 33 M A Night Battle over a Week Since, 34 Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier. Some Specimen Cases, 36 My Preparations for Visits, 38 Ambulance Processions Bad Wounds— the Young, 39 * The Most Inspiriting of all War's Shows, 39 Prattle of Gettysburg A Cavalry Camp, 40 V-A New York Soldier, 41 'T Home-Made Music, 42 Abraham Lincoln, 43 Heated Term Soldiers and Talks, 44 Death of a Wisconsin Officer, 45 Hospitals Ensemble, ■ ■ v 46 ^ A Silent Night Ramble, 47 ^ Spiritual Characters among the Soldiers Cattle Droves about Washington, ... 48 ^Hospital Perplexity, 48 ypown at the Front, , 49 Paying the Bounties Rumors, Changes, &c Virginia, 50 s Summer of 1864, 5* ^A New Army Organization fit for America Death of a Hero, ........ 52 Hospital Scenes— Incidents, . . . 53 j&A Yankee Soldier Union Prisoners South, 54 .-Deserters A Glimpse of War's Hell-Scenes, 55 ^Gifts — Money — Discrimination Items from My Note Books, 57 VA Case from Second Bull Run ...Army Surgeons — Aid Deficiencies, 58 L^The Blue Every where A Model Hospital, 59 **Boys in the Army Burial of a Lady Nurse, 60 "^Female Nurses for Soldiers Southern Escapees, . 61 y * An Ossianic Night — Dearest Friends, 192 Only a New Ferry Boat Death of Longfellow 193 Starting Newspapers, 194 The Great Unrest of which We are a Part, , 196 By Emerson's Grave, 197 At Present Writing— Personal After Trying a Certain Book, 298 Final Confessions — Literary Tests, 199 Nature and Democracy — Morality, 200 COLLECT. One or Two Index Items, 20a - Democratic Vistas, 203 Origins of Attempted Secession, 258 Preface, 1855, to first issue of " Leaves of Grass,*' 263 Preface, 1872, to "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free," 275 Preface, 1876, to L. of G. and "*T wo Rivulets," Centennial Edition, 280 Poetry To-Day in America — Shakspere — the Future, 288 A Memorandum at a Venture, 302 Death of Abraham Lincoln, 306 Two Letters, . . . .' ' 315 Notes Left Over. Nationality (and Yet) , 3x7 ,* Emerson's Books (the Shadows of Them), 3x9 Ventures on an Old Theme , 322 British Literature, ' 324 -Darwinism (then Furthermore), 326 ''Society,". 3=7 The Tramp and Strike Questions 329 Democracy in the New World, 330 Foundation Stages— then Others General Suffrage, Elections, &c, 331 Who Gets the Plunder? 33a Friendship (the Real Article) Lacks and Wants Vet, 333 . Rulers Strictly Out of the Masses, 334 Monuments— the Past and Present Little or Nothing New After All, 335 A Lincoln Reminiscence, 333 Freedom 33 6 Book-Classes— America's Literature Our Real Culmination, 357-« An American Problem The Last Collective Compaction, 338 Pieces in Early Youth. Dough-Face Song, 339 r 'Lingave*s Temptation, .366