Specimen Days

Sprecher:Sue Anderson, Anna Simon, Sarah Jennings, Sibella Denton, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), David Jaquay, Great Plains, Joan Freeman, Belinda Brown, Aaron Elliott, Jc Guan, Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010), Rich Meyers

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1/20A Happy Hour's Command --- Sources of Character-Results-1860

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1. A Happy Hour's Command --- Sources of Character-Results-1860
2. Opening of the Secession of War --- Patent Office Hospital
3. The White House by Moonlight --- The Most Inspiriting of All War's Shows
4. Battle of Gettysburg --- Summer of 1864
5. A New Army Organization Fit for America --- A Model Hospital
6. Boys in the Army --- Death of President Lincoln
7. Sherman's Army's Jubilation-Its Sudden Stoppage --- The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
8. An Interegnum Paragraph --- Colors-A Contrast
9. Nover 8, '76 --- The Oaks and I
10. A Quintet --- Death of William Cullen Bryant
11. Jaunt Up the Hudson --- Wild Flowers
12. The Civility Too Long Neglected -- Meeting A Hermit
13. An Ulster County Waterfall -- Swallow on the River
14. Begin a Long Jaunt West -- The Women of the West
15. The Silent General -- Seeing Niagara to Advantage
16. Jaunting To Canada --- Death of Thomas Carlyle
17. Carlyle From American Points of View -- Millet's Pictures Last Items
18. Birds - Death of Longfellow
19. Starting Newspapers --- Nature and Democracy-Morality
20. Notes

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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.