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Contents
- Front Matter
- Specimen Days
- 1 A Happy Hour’s Command
- 2 Answer to an Insisting Friend
- 3 Genealogy — Van Velsor and Whitman
- 4 The Old Whitman and Van Velsor Cemeteries
- 5 The Maternal Homestead
- 6 Two Old Family Interiors
- 7 Paumanok, and My Life on it as Child and Young Man
- 8 My First Reading — Lafayette
- 9 Printing Office — Old Brooklyn
- 10 Growth — Health — Work
- 11 My Passion for Ferries
- 12 Broadway Sights
- 13 Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers
- 14 Plays and Operas Too
- 15 Through Eight Years
- 16 Sources of Character — Results — 1860
- 17 Opening of the Secession War
- 18 National Uprising and Volunteering
- 19 Contemptuous Feeling
- 20 Battle of Bull Run, July, 1861
- 21 The Stupor Passes — Something Else Begins
- 22 Down at the Front
- 23 After First Fredericksburg
- 24 Back to Washington
- 25 Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field
- 26 Hospital Scenes and Persons
- 27 Patent-Office Hospital
- 28 The White House by Moonlight
- 29 An Army Hospital Ward
- 30 A Connecticut Case
- 31 Two Brooklyn Boys
- 32 A Secesh Brave
- 33 The Wounded from Chancellorsville
- 34 A Night Battle, Over A Week Since
- 35 Unnamed Remains The Bravest Soldier
- 36 Some Specimen Cases
- 37 My Preparations for Visits
- 38 Ambulance Processions
- 39 Bad Wounds — The Young
- 40 The Most Inspiriting of all War’S Shows
- 41 Battle of Gettysburg
- 42 A Cavalry Camp
- 43 A New York Soldier
- 44 Home-Made Music
- 45 Abraham Lincoln
- 46 Heated Term
- 47 Soldiers and Talks
- 48 Death of a Wisconsin Officer
- 49 Hospitals Ensemble
- 50 A Silent Night Ramble
- 51 Spiritual Characters Among The Soldiers
- 52 Cattle Droves About Washington
- 53 Hospital Perplexity
- 54 Down at the Front
- 55 Paying The Bounties
- 56 Rumors, Changes, &c.
- 57 Virginia
- 58 Summer of 1864
- 59 A New Army Organization Fit for America
- 60 Death of a Hero
- 61 Hospital Scenes — Incidents
- 62 A Yankee Soldier
- 63 Union Prisoners South
- 64 Deserters
- 65 A Glimpse of War’S Hell-Scenes
- 66 Gifts — Money — Discrimination
- 67 Items From My Note Books
- 68 A Case From Second Bull Run
- 69 Army Surgeons — Aid Deficiencies
- 70 The Blue Everywhere
- 71 A Model Hospital
- 72 Boys in the Army
- 73 Burial of a Lady Nurse
- 74 Female Nurses for Soldiers
- 75 Southern Escapees
- 76 The Capitol by Gas-Light
- 77 The Inauguration
- 78 Attitude of Foreign Governments During The War
- 79 The Weather — Does it Sympathize with these Times?
- 80 Inauguration Ball
- 81 Scene at the Capitol
- 82 A Yankee Antique
- 83 Wounds and Diseases
- 84 Death of President Lincoln
- 85 Sherman’s Army’s Jubilation — Its Sudden Stoppage
- 86 No Good Portrait of Lincoln
- 87 Releas’d Union Prisoners From South
- 88 Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier
- 89 The Armies Returning
- 90 The Grand Review
- 91 Western Soldiers
- 92 A Soldier on Lincoln
- 93 Two Brothers, One South, One North
- 94 Some Sad Cases Yet
- 95 Calhoun’s Real Monument
- 96 Hospitals Closing
- 97 Typical Soldiers
- 98 “Convulsiveness”
- 99 Three Years Summ’d Up
- 100 The Million Dead, Too, Summ’d Up
- 101 The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
- 102 An Interregnum Paragraph
- 103 New Themes Entered Upon
- 104 Entering a Long Farm-Lane
- 105 To The Spring and Brook
- 106 An Early Summer Reveille
- 107 Birds Migrating at Midnight
- 108 Bumble-Bees
- 109 Cedar-Apples
- 110 Summer Sights and Indolencies
- 111 Sundown Perfume — Quail-Notes — The Hermit-Thrush
- 112 A July Afternoon By The Pond
- 113 Locusts and Katydids
- 114 The Lesson of a Tree
- 115 Autumn Side-Bits
- 116 The Sky — Days and Nights — Happiness
- 117 Colors — a Contrast
- 118 November 8, ’76
- 119 Crows and Crows
- 120 A Winter Day on the Sea-Beach
- 121 Sea-Shore Fancies
- 122 In Memory of Thomas Paine: Spoken at Lincoln Hall,
Philadelphia, Sunday, Jan. 28, ’77, for 140th anniversary of T. P.’s birth-day. - 123 A Two Hours’ Ice-Sail
- 124 Spring Overtures — Recreations
- 125 One of the Human Kinks
- 126 An Afternoon Scene
- 127 The Gates Opening
- 128 The Common Earth, The Soil
- 129 Birds and Birds and Birds
- 130 Full-Starr’d Nights
- 131 Mulleins and Mulleins
- 132 Distant Sounds
- 133 A Sun-Bath — Nakedness
- 134 The Oaks and I
- 135 A Quintette
- 136 The First Frost — Mems
- 137 Three Young Men’S Deaths
- 138 February Days
- 139 A Meadow Lark
- 140 Sundown Lights
- 141 Thoughts Under an Oak—A Dream
- 142 Clover and Hay Perfume
- 143 An Unknown
- 144 Bird-Whistling
- 145 Horse-Mint
- 146 Three of Us
- 147 Death of William Cullen Bryant
- 148 Jaunt up the Hudson
- 149 Happiness and Raspberries
- 150 A Specimen Tramp Family
- 151 Manhattan from the Bay
- 152 Human and Heroic New York
- 153 Hours for the Soul
- 154 Straw-Color’d and Other Psyches
- 155 A Night Remembrance
- 156 Wild Flowers
- 157 A Civility Too Long Neglected
- 158 Delaware River — Days and Nights
- 159 Scenes on Ferry and River — Last Winter’S Nights
- 160 The First Spring Day on Chestnut Street
- 161 Up The Hudson to Ulster County
- 162 Days at J. B.’s — Turf-Fires — Spring Songs
- 163 Meeting a Hermit
- 164 An Ulster County Waterfall
- 165 Walter Dumont and his Medal
- 166 Hudson River Sights
- 167 Two City Areas, Certain Hours
- 168 Central Park Walks and Talks
- 169 A Fine Afternoon, 4 to 6
- 170 Departing of the Big Steamers
- 171 Two Hours on the Minnesota
- 172 Mature Summer Days and Nights
- 173 Exposition Building — New City Hall — River Trip
- 174 Swallows on the River
- 175 Begin a Long Jaunt West
- 176 In the Sleeper
- 177 Missouri State
- 178 Lawrence and Topeka, Kansas
- 179 The Prairies: And an Undeliver’d Speech
- 180 On to Denver — a Frontier Incident
- 181 An Hour on Kenosha Summit
- 182 An Egotistical “Find”
- 183 New Senses — New Joys
- 184 Steam-Power, Telegraphs, &c.
- 185 America’s Back-Bone
- 186 The Parks
- 187 Art Features
- 188 Denver Impressions
- 189 I Turn South — and then East Again
- 190 Unfulfill’d Wants — The Arkansas River
- 191 A Silent Little Follower — The Coreopsis
- 192 The Prairies and Great Plains in Poetry: (After Traveling Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado.)
- 193 The Spanish Peaks — Evening on the Plains
- 194 America’s Characteristic Landscape
- 195 Earth’s Most Important Stream
- 196 Prairie Analogies — The Tree Question
- 197 Mississippi Valley Literature
- 198 An Interviewer’s Item
- 199 The Women of the West
- 200 The Silent General
- 201 President Hayes’s Speeches
- 202 St. Louis Memoranda
- 203 Nights on the Mississippi
- 204 Upon our Own Land
- 205 Edgar Poe’s Significance
- 206 Beethoven’s Septette
- 207 A Hint of Wild Nature
- 208 Loafing in the Woods
- 209 A Contralto Voice
- 210 Seeing Niagara to Advantage
- 211 Jaunting to Canada
- 212 Sunday with the Insane
- 213 Reminiscence of Elias Hicks
- 214 Grand Native Growth
- 215 A Zollverein Between The U. S. and Canada
- 216 The St. Lawrence Line
- 217 The Savage Saguenay
- 218 Capes Eternity and Trinity
- 219 Chicoutimi and Ha-Ha Bay
- 220 The Inhabitants — Good Living
- 221 Cedar-Plums Like — Names: (Back again in Camden and down in Jersey)
- 222 Death of Thomas Carlyle
- 223 Carlyle from American Points of View: Later Thoughts and Jottings
- 224 A Couple of Old Friends — A Coleridge Bit
- 225 A Week’S Visit to Boston
- 226 The Boston of To-Day
- 227 My Tribute to Four Poets
- 228 Millet’s Pictures — Last Items
- 229 Birds — and A Caution
- 230 Samples of My Common-Place Book
- 231 My Native Sand and Salt Once More
- 232 Hot Weather New York
- 233 “Custer’s Last Rally”
- 234 Some Old Acquaintances — Memories
- 235 A Discovery of Old Age
- 236 A Visit, At the Last, To R. W. Emerson
- 237 Other Concord Notations
- 238 Boston Common — More of Emerson
- 239 An Ossianic Night — Dearest Friends
- 240 Only a New Ferry Boat
- 241 Death of Longfellow
- 242 Starting Newspapers
- 243 The Great Unrest of Which We are Part
- 244 By Emerson’s Grave
- 245 At Present Writing — Personal: A letter to a German friend — extract
- 246 After Trying a Certain Book
- 247 Final Confessions — Literary Tests
- 248 Nature and Democracy — Morality
- End Matter
