Walt Whitman: Eyewitness to the Civil War Read by Ed Begley Released in 1969 Side One From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird Opening of the Secession War Eighteen Sixty-One Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me Contemptuous Feeling Beat! Beat! Drums! Battle of Bull Run, July, 1861 Long, Too Long America An Army Corps on the March The Stupor Passes—Something Else Begins Sources of Character—Results—1860 Bivouac on a Mountain Side After First Fredericksburg Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night   Side Two Back to Washington Hospital Scenes and Persons Not Youth Pertains to Me The White House by Moonlight A Night Battle, Over a Week Since A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim Ambulance Processions O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy Bad Wounds—The Young Cavalry Crossing a Ford A Cavalry Camp By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame   Side Three Abraham Lincoln A Silent Night Ramble Summer of 1864 A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and The Road Unknown Hospital Scenes-Incidents The Inauguration A Yankee Antique Wounds and Diseases Death of President Lincoln Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day O Captain! My Captain   Side Four When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d This Dust Was Once the Man Sherman’s Army’s Jubilation—Its Sudden Stoppage Ethiopia Saluting the Colors Two Brothers, One South, One North Three Years Summ’d Up Race of Veterans World Take Good Notice Lo, Victress on the Peaks The Million Dead, Too, Summ’d Up The Real War Will Never Get in the Books Old War-Dreams