 
Table of Contents:
Specimen Days 
A Happy Hour's Command 
Answer to an Insisting Friend 
Genealogy--Van Velsor and Whitman 
The Old Whitman and Van Velsor 
Cemeteries 
The Maternal Homestead 
Two Old Family Interiors 
Paumanok, 
and My Life on It As Child and Young Man 
My First Reading--Lafayette 
Printing Office--Old Brooklyn 
Growth--Health--Work 
My Passion for 
Ferries 
Broadway Sights 
Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers 
Plays and Operas 
Too 
Through Eight Years 
Sources of Character--Results--1860 
Opening 
of the Secession War 
National Uprising and Volunteering 
Contemptuous 
Feeling 
Battle of Bull Run, July, 1861 
The Stupor Passes--Something Else 
Begins 
Down at the Front 
After First Fredericksburg 
Back to 
Washington 
Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field 
Hospital Scenes and 
Persons 
Patent-Office Hospital 
The White House by Moonlight 
An Army 
Hospital Ward 
A Connecticut Case 
Two Brooklyn Boys 
A Secesh Brave 
The Wounded from Chancellorsville 
A Night Battle Over a Week Since 
Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier 
Some Specimen Cases 
My 
Preparations for Visits 
Ambulance Processions 
Bad Wounds--The Young 
The Most Inspiriting of All War's Shows 
Battle of Gettysburg 
A 
Cavalry Camp 
A New York Soldier 
Home-Made Music 
Abraham Lincoln 
Heated Term 
Soldiers and Talks 
Death of a Wisconsin Officer 
Hospitals Ensemble 
A Silent Night Ramble 
Spiritual Characters Among 
the Soldiers 
Cattle Droves About Washington 
Hospital Perplexity 
Down 
at the Front 
Paying the Bounties 
Rumors, Changes, Etc 
Virginia 
Summer of 1864 
A New Army Organization Fit for America 
Death of a 
Hero 
Hospital Scenes--Incidents 
A Yankee Soldier 
Union Prisoners 
South 
Deserters 
A Glimpse of War's Hell-Scenes 
Gifts--Money--Discrimination 
Items from My Note Books 
A Case from 
Second Bull Run 
Army Surgeons--Aid Deficiencies 
The Blue Everywhere 
A Model Hospital 
Boys in the Army 
Burial of a Lady Nurse 
Female 
Nurses for Soldiers 
Southern Escapees 
The Capitol by Gas-Light 
The 
Inauguration 
Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War 
The 
Weather--Does It Sympathize with These Times? 
Inauguration Ball 
Scene at 
the Capitol 
A Yankee Antique 
Wounds and Diseases 
Death of President 
Lincoln 
Sherman's Army's Jubilation--Its Sudden Stoppage 
No Good 
Portrait of Lincoln 
Releas'd Union Prisoners from South 
Death of a 
Pennsylvania Soldier 
The Armies Returning 
The Grand Review 
Western 
Soldiers 
A Soldier on Lincoln 
Two Brothers, One South, One North 
Some Sad Cases Yet 
Calhoun's Real Monument 
Hospitals Closing 
Typical Soldiers 
"Convulsiveness" 
Three Years Summ'd Up 
The 
Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up 
The Real War Will Never Get in the Books 
An 
Interregnum Paragraph 
New Themes Entered Upon 
Entering a Long Farm-Lane 
To the Spring and Brook 
An Early Summer Reveille 
Birds Migrating at 
Midnight 
Bumble-Bees 
Cedar-Apples 
Summer Sights and Indolencies 
Sundown Perfume--Quailnotes--The Hermit-Thrush 
A July After-Noon by the 
Pond 
Locusts and Katy-Dids 
The Lesson of a Tree 
Autumn Side-Bits 
The Sky--Days and Nights--Happiness 
Colors--A Contrast 
November 8, 
'76 
Crows and Crows 
A Winter Day on the Sea-Beach 
Sea-Shore Fancies 
In Memory of Thomas Paine 
A Two Hours Ice-Sail 
Spring 
Overtures--Recreations 
One of the Human Kinks 
An Afternoon Scene 
The 
Gates Opening 
The Common Earth, the Soil 
Birds and Birds and Birds 
Full-Starr'd Nights 
Mulleins and Mulleins 
Distant Sounds 
A 
Sun-Bath-Nakedness 
The Oaks and I 
A Quintette 
The First Frost--Mems 
Three Young Men
