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31. Two Brooklyn Boys
HERE in this same ward are two young men from Brooklyn, members of the 51st New York. I had known...
30. A Connecticut Case
THIS young man in bed 25 is H. D. B., of the 27th Connecticut, company B. His folks live at North...
29. An Army Hospital Ward
LET me specialize a visit I made to the collection of barrack-like one-story edifices, Campbell h...
28. The White House by Moonlight
February 24th.—A SPELL of fine soft weather. I wander about a good deal, sometimes at night under...
27. Patent-Office Hospital
February 23.—I MUST not let the great hospital at the Patent-office pass away without some mentio...
26. Hospital Scenes and Persons
Letter Writing.—WHEN eligible, I encourage the men to write, and myself, when called upon, write ...
25. Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field
HERE is a case of a soldier I found among the crowded cots in the Patent-office. He likes to have...
24. Back to Washington
January, ’63.—LEFT camp at Falmouth, with some wounded, a few days since, and came here by Aquia ...
23. After First Fredericksburg
December 23 to 31.—THE RESULTS of the late battle are exhibited everywhere about here in thousand...
22. Down at the Front
FALMOUTH, VA., opposite Fredericksburgh, December 21, 1862.—Begin my visits among the camp hospit...
21. The Stupor Passes—Something Else Begins
BUT the hour, the day, the night pass’d, and whatever returns, an hour, a day, a night like that ...
20. Battle of Bull Run, July, 1861
ALL this sort of feeling was destin’d to be arrested and revers’d by a terrible shock—the battle ...
19. Contemptuous Feeling
EVEN after the bombardment of Sumter, however, the gravity of the revolt, and the power and will ...
18. National Uprising and Volunteering
I HAVE said somewhere that the three Presidentiads preceding 1861 show’d how the weakness and wic...
17. Opening of the Secession War
NEWS of the attack on fort Sumter and the flag at Charleston harbor, S. C., was receiv’d in New Y...
16. Sources of Character—Results—1860
TO sum up the foregoing from the outset (and, of course, far, far more unrecorded,) I estimate th...
15. Through Eight Years
IN 1848, ’49, I was occupied as editor of the “daily Eagle” newspaper, in Brooklyn. The latter ye...
14. Plays and Operas Too
AND certain actors and singers, had a good deal to do with the business. All through these years,...
13. Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers
ONE phase of those days must by no means go unrecorded—namely, the Broadway omnibuses, with their...
11. My Passion for Ferries
LIVING in Brooklyn or New York city from this time forward, my life, then, and still more the fol...