Walt Whitman's Reconstruction: Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History

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177 Abbot, Jacob, 20–21 African Americans: and election of 1872, 39–40; in Grand Review of the Union Army, 2, 3; “miscegenation ,” 32–35, 154n37, 155n41, 155n49; oppression of, 3; postwar protection of, 117; voting rights of, 3, 9–10, 38, 116, 117; in Washington , 149, 168n10 Alcott, Louisa May, 52, 55 Allen, Gay Wilson, 79, 80, 163n22 Andersonville prison, 19, 75–76, 160n27 Armory Square Hospital Gazette, 18 Army & Navy Official Gazette, 18 “As at Thy Portals Also Death” (Whitman ), 13, 138–39 “As I Ponder’d in Silence” (Whitman), 149, 150 “As I Sat by Blue Ontario’s Shore” (Whitman), 9 “As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors” (Whitman), 130 Associated Press, 46 “As the Time Draws Nigh” (Whitman), 13 Atlantic Monthly, 18, 24, 26 attorney general’s office: dismissal of Whitman from, 123, 131; and Grant administration, 118, 123; and health issues of Whitman, 121–22; and Johnson administration , 109, 118 audience. See readership of Whitman “A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads” (Whitman), 8 Badeau, Adam, 143 Baldasty, Gerald J., 36 Baldwin, David B., 99, 162n13 “Bardic Symbols” (Whitman), 24 “Bathed in War’s Perfume” cluster (Whitman), 78, 88, 91, 107 “Beautiful Women” (Whitman), 101 Belasco, Susan, 24, 29 Blight, David W., 33, 117 Blodgett, Harold W., 80, 162n10 bloodstains in notebooks, 7, 8, 20, 53, 54, 69–70 “A Boston Ballad” (Whitman), 84–86 Bradley, Sculley, 80, 162n10 Brady, Mathew, 49 Bryant, William Cullen, 40 Burns, Anthony, 85 Burroughs, John, 21, 83 Burroughs, William, 30 Butler, Benjamin, 113 “By Blue Ontario’s Shore” (Whitman), 127–28 “By the Roadside” cluster (Whitman), 77–108; “Astronomer” in, 92–95; “by the roadside” phrase, 106–8; disparate observations in, 101; introspective observation in, 101– 3, 104–5; order of works in, 92; Index Index 178 political context depicted in, 84–87; as prelude to “Drum-Taps” cluster, 11–12, 82–83, 84, 91–92, 103, 105, 161n5; and prewar passivity , 82, 95, 103–6; questions and answers in, 95–101; reassembly into LG, 79, 81–84; scholarly disagreement on, 80–81; speaker of, 87–89, 89–90, 103–4, 162n10 cemeteries and graves: of ancestors, 13, 136–40; of Confederate soldiers , 160n23; and “Decoration Day,” 157n7; as embodiment of war, 66; and loss of memory, 141; as record of the war, 76; of Union soldiers, 139–40, 160n23; for unknown dead, 13, 59, 65; of Whitman ’s ancestors, 136–39, 140. See also deaths of soldiers Century Magazine, 22, 142–43 chemistry of death, 65–66, 75–76, 135 Chicago Tribune, 40 Christian Commission. See also deaths of soldiers Christ imagery, 67–68 Christmas Graphic, 30–32 Cincinnati Commercial, 40 Civil War: “awakening” generated by, 103, 105; casualties of, 112–13 (see also deaths of soldiers); centrality of, to Whitman’s life, 80; commemoration of, 49, 50; Crusades analogy of, 7–8, 152n14; documentation of (see historicizing of the war); Grant’s leadership in, 111–14; and health of Whitman, 7, 70; “interior history” of, 6–7, 58; and later work of Whitman, 11; and Leaves of Grass, 73, 77–79, 79–82; limitations of historical accounts of, 56–57; memorialization of, 49, 50, 59, 156n1, 157n7; and persona of Whitman, 12; as pivotal, redemptive event, 106; prisoner exchanges in, 113–14, 166nn5–7; public preoccupation with, 7, 8, 75; reminders of, 3; and Republican Party, 34; unrepresentable nature of, 6, 56–58, 64, 68–69, 71–72, 74, 140– 41. See also memories of the war Clark, Leadie M., 155n41 class issues, 39, 41, 42–43, 100, 116 Colfax, Schuyler, 120 Compromise of 1850, 103 A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau’s Rivers (Zwinger and Teale), 152n9 Conway, Moncure, 109, 110, 116 corruption, 88, 103, 120, 121 Credit Mobilier scandal, 120, 121 critics, Whitman on, 131–32 Croly, David G., 29, 32–35, 36–37, 155n49 “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (Whitman ), 89 Crusades, 7–8, 152n14 currency, paper, 40, 41 Cushman, Stephen, 57, 159n22 cylinder presses, 21–22 “The Dalliance of Eagles” (Whitman), 101 dandy-to-rough transformation, 16 Index 179 Davis, Robert Leigh, 41 “Dear to the Muse” (Whitman), 148 “Death of Abraham Lincoln” (Whitman ), 145–48 “Death of General Grant” (Whitman), 129 deaths of soldiers: chemistry of, 65– 66, 75–76, 135; corpses in poetry, 84–85, 86; described in prose, 60–62, 64–65; as experienced by Whitman, 70–71; and memories of the war, 70; unknown dead, 13, 59...