A collection of Walt Whitman's prose: autobiographical notes, reminiscences, essays and travel sketches drawn from his experience of American life, nature and the Civil War era. It is worth listening to for its calm observational voice and historical insight into everyday life and human kindness.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
COMPLETE PROSE WORKS Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good Bye My Fancy By Walt Whitman CONTENTS DETAILED 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
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