Specimen Days

by Walt Whitman

20 chapters11h 4mEnglish1882

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Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America.

Chapters (20)

1A Happy Hour's Command --- Sources of Character-Results-1860

3047

2Opening of the Secession of War --- Patent Office Hospital

1705

3The White House by Moonlight --- The Most Inspiriting of All War's Shows

1740

4Battle of Gettysburg --- Summer of 1864

2003

5A New Army Organization Fit for America --- A Model Hospital

1343

6Boys in the Army --- Death of President Lincoln

1988

7Sherman's Army's Jubilation-Its Sudden Stoppage --- The Real War Will Never Get in the Books

2260

8An Interegnum Paragraph --- Colors-A Contrast

2541

9Nover 8, '76 --- The Oaks and I

2473

10A Quintet --- Death of William Cullen Bryant

1719

11Jaunt Up the Hudson --- Wild Flowers

2092

12The Civility Too Long Neglected -- Meeting A Hermit

2014

13An Ulster County Waterfall -- Swallow on the River

1805

14Begin a Long Jaunt West -- The Women of the West

3524

15The Silent General -- Seeing Niagara to Advantage

1307

16Jaunting To Canada --- Death of Thomas Carlyle

1731

17Carlyle From American Points of View -- Millet's Pictures Last Items

3078

18Birds - Death of Longfellow

2044

19Starting Newspapers --- Nature and Democracy-Morality

1227

20Notes

206

Specimen Days

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Chapters (20)

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