Webster’s dictionary, 82
Weed, Thurlow, 219
Welles, Gideon, 200
Wells, Samuel, 37
Wentworth, Horace, 121, 265
Western, Lucille, 259
Westminster Review (periodical), 106
“What Was It?” (O’Brien), 157
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (Whitman), 240–241, 265
Whistler, James, 9
White, Richard Grant, 107
White House (Washington, DC), 197, 228
Whitman, Eddy, 43–44
Whitman, George, 44, 268, 269, 271
military service, 140, 157–158, 161–163, 226
return home from war, 228–229
Whitman, Hannah, 44
Whitman, Jeff, 44, 99, 121, 122, 161, 225
Whitman, Jesse, 44
Whitman, Mary, 44
Whitman, Walt
America as theme, 39
anxiety about soldier brother George, 157–158, 161–163
Arnold, fight with, 160
beginnings as poet, 38
Bohemianism and, 1, 2–3
in Boston, 98–102
as Broadway rambler, 35–36
in Brooklyn, 1, 33–34, 43–44, 76, 102, 122, 158, 219–220, 228, 230
brother George and, 157–158, 161–163, 229, 268, 271
in Camden, 268–272
childhood, 33–34
Civil War, effect on, 202, 220, 268
Clapp and, 33, 74, 92–93, 100–101, 106–108, 160, 201, 239, 261
Clare and, 73–74, 259
on Clare’s death, 259
compartmentalized life, 74, 76, 98–99, 201
creative bursts of, 38, 62
Dartmouth commencement and, 266
Doyle and, 225–227, 228, 235, 264–265, 268–269, 271
dress of, 32
Emerson and, 31, 41–43, 99–100, 101, 103, 255–256
fame grows late in life, 265–267, 272
field hospitals and, 163
Fiery Fifties and, 49, 102
first-person universal and, 39, 104
as government clerk, 190, 225, 234, 263–264
hashish and, 55
health of, 193, 202, 219–220, 267–268
hospital service, 3, 164, 165, 188–197, 202, 219, 225, 264
Howells and, 91–92
influence on Stoddard, 184
on John Wilkes Booth, 142
as journalist, 34–35, 43
Junius Booth and, 57
lack of intimates, 35, 198–200, 271
letters to families of dead soldiers, 195–196
Lincoln and, 121–122, 197–198, 228, 230, 234–235, 239–241, 270–271
Lincoln assassination and, 234–235, 270–271
Lincoln lectures of, 270–271
longevity of, 263
on meeting ragged woman on Broadway, 154
men, taste in 76, 102, 199, 227
Menken and, 73–74, 114, 124
meteor procession and, 118
mother (Louisa Whitman), 1, 43, 45, 161, 163, 193, 195, 198, 202, 230, 268
mythologizers of, 267, 272
New York Leader and, 155–156
nostalgia for Pfaff’s, 200–201
notebook entries about men he met during late-night wanderings, 77, 158–159
outbreak of Civil War and, 135–136, 137, 138
Pfaff’s as gay men’s meeting place and, 74–75, 76, 98–99, 158, 201
Pfaff’s Bohemians and, 31–33, 43, 44–46, 62, 74, 76, 98–99, 159–160, 200–201, 272
phrenology and, 36, 37–38, 42, 75, 104
pirated Leaves of Grass, 121
poem clusters, 98, 103, 104, 184
politics and, 45–46, 49, 105, 120–121, 197–198, 225, 228, 234–235, 235–241, 270–271
reviews of work, 40–41, 105–106, 107–108, 241, 265
romantic relationships, 75–76, 158, 198–199, 225–227, 228, 264–265, 268–269, 271
Saturday Press and, 33, 79, 92–93, 95, 239–240
sexuality in poems of, 97, 103–104
slang and, 36, 39, 40, 104, 163
stroke, 267–268
Thayer & Eldridge and, 95–96, 97–98, 99, 102–103, 108
union theme, 105, 197, 202, 230
walking, passion for, 35–36, 76, 101, 118, 135, 158, 196–197, 227, 230, 264–265
“wander-speaker,” desire to become one, 45–46, 66
war poems, 140–141, 196, 221, 229
at the war’s front, 163–165
in Washington, DC, 189–202, 225, 263–265
Washington literary salon and, 200
on William Winter, 45, 106
See also Leaves of Grass (Whitman); individual poems
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 41, 266
Whittier, Mathew, 129
Whittredge, Worthington, 170
Wilde, Oscar, 272
Wilderness, battle of, 202
Wilkins, Ned, 62
Willson, Forceythe, 266
Wilmington (NC) Herald (newspaper), 243
Wilson, David, 159
Wilson Creek, battle of, 153
Winter, William, 139
on Bohemians’ critiques at Pfaff’s and their value, 29
on Clapp, 81, 87
as drama critic, 134, 256
Edwin Booth and, 56
New York Leader and, 155
parody of Leaves of Grass, 106–107
Ward and, 132–133, 134
on Whitman, 32–33, 45
Winter Garden Theatre (New York), 223
Winwar, Frances, 106
Wisconsin Daily Patriot (newspaper), 69
Wise, Rabbi Isaac, 70
Women
Bohemian, in Paris, 11–12
media and pressure about weight, 84
at Pfaff’s, 63, 64
Pfaff’s Bohemians, 65–73
public life of, 63–64
saloons and, 1–2, 63, 64
Wood, Frank, 156
Woollcott, Alexander, 86
“The Wound-Dresser” (Whitman), 196, 229
“Wounded” (poem falsely attributed to Whitman), 159
Yancey, William, 112
“Year of Meteors (1859–1860)” (Whitman), 118, 229
Yosemite, Ludlow-Bierstadt trip to, 181–182
Young, Brigham, 178, 179–180
About the Author
Justin Martin is the author of three previous books, most recently Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. This biography of the pioneering landscape architect behind Central Park and dozens of green space masterpieces earned glowing reviews nationally. As one of the few journalists to gain access to a famously secretive Fed chairman, Martin also wrote Greenspan: The Man Behind Money, a best-selling biography selected by the New York Times Book Review as a notable book. Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon, Martin’s biography of the controversial consumer advocate and presidential candidate, served as a primary source for An Unreasonable Man, an Academy Award–nominated documentary. Martin’s articles have appeared in a variety of publications including the New York Times, Newsweek, and San Francisco Chronicle, and he is frequently called upon to give speeches. A 1987 graduate of Rice University in Houston, Texas, Martin lives with his wife and twin sons in Forest Hills Gardens, New York.
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