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[scene in the woods on]
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Whitman Archive Title: [scene in the woods on]
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00484
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
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Box: 8
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Folder: Notebooks, [circa 1863–1864], Washington hospital notebook
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Series: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, [1847]-[circa 1863-1864]
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Date: 1863–1864
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Genre: prose, poetry
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Physical Description: 24 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
A small, homemade notebook which contains, among other notes, an account
of the retreat following the battle of White Oaks Church, as told to
Whitman by Milton Roberts. Whitman used many of the scences from
Roberts's story in the poem, "A March in the
Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown," first published in
Drum-Taps
(1865). Adam
Bradford writes about this notebook and its connection to "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road
Unknown"; see "Re-Collecting
Soldiers: Walt Whitman and the Appreciation of Human Value,"
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
27.3 (Winter 2010),
127-52.
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