During the Civil War, from 1862-1865, Walt Whitman spent much of his time with wounded soldiers, both in the field and in the hospitals. The 40 notebooks he filled became the basis for the extraordinary diary of a medic in the Civil War.

While serving as a volunteer at military hospitals, the poet recorded soldiers' anecdotes of army life, their last words and final messages, and his own reflections on the Civil War.

Beginning with no. 650 each hundredth number contains a list of the Reports and memoranda published since the last list.

being a compendium of useful practical hints to emigrants selected from an unpublished narrative of the adventures of a large family from the north of England, which emigrated to America in 1818, and settled in various parts of the Canadas, and the Western States, as farmern, &c.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.