"Song of the Banner at Daybreak" (p. 260). This is the only poem of Whitman's cast in dramatic form.

"The Centenarian's Story" (p. 270). According to Whitman's literary executors, Traubel, Bucke and Harned (Camden Edition, I, p. xix) the poet had a great uncle, the son of Nehemiah Whitman, his great grandfather, who "was a lieutenant in Col. Josiah Smith's regiment of the American Army. He participated in the disastrous battle of Brooklyn and there lost his life. In the Centennarian story will be found some informal account of this portentious event". As editor of the Eagle, Whitman urged the creation of Washington Park (Fort Greene), wrote a patriotic ode about the patriots buried there (U.P.P., I, pp. 22-23), and gave considerable space to it in his "Brooklyniana" (U.P.P., II, pp. 242-246). Cf. also "The Sleepers", § 5 (p. 388).

"Cavalry Crossing a Ford" (p. 275). This poem has been set to music by Tillie White.

"By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame" (p. 276). This poem was set to music by Harvey Gaul.

"Come Up from the Fields Father" (p. 277). Manuscripts in the Bayard Wyman collection seem to identify this poem with the case of Oscar Cunningham, mentioned in one of Whitman's letters to his mother (p.944). Whitman wrote such a letter to Cunningham's sister when he died in June 1864.

"A March in the Ranks, Hard Pres't, and the Road Unknown" (p. 280). For an early manuscript version of this incident see Glicksberg, pp. 123-125.

"Dirge for Two Veterans" (p. 288). This poem was set to music by F.L. Ritter, Opus 13.

"The Artilleryman's Vision" (p. 291). Cf. "The Sleepers", § 5 (p. 388).

"Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" (p. 292). Set to music by Coleridge-Taylor, Opus 51, and by Charles Wood.

"World Take Good Notice" (p. 293). A longer manuscript version of this poem was printed in facsimile by J.H. Johnston, a friend of the poet, in the Century Magazine, February 1911, Vol. 59, p.532, as follows:

"Rise, lurid stars, woolly white no more;
Change, angry cloth — weft of the silver stars no more;
Orbs blushing scarlet — thirty four stars, red as flame,
On the blue bunting this day we sew.

World take good notice, silver stars have vanished;
Orbs now of scarlet — now mortal coals all aglow
Dots of molten iron, wakeful and ominous,
On the blue bunting henceforth appear."

"O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy" (p. 293). This poem was set to music by Weda Cook Addicks.

"Look Down Fair Moon" (p. 294). This poem was set to music by Phillip Dalmas.

"Reconciliation" (p. 294). This poem was set to music by Phillip Dalmas.

"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" (p. 295). In William Rossetti's selected edition of Whitman's poems the title of this poem was "Questionable".

"Memories of President Lincoln" (p.300). The relationship of Whitman and Lincoln is the subject of an entire volume by William E. Barton, an unsympathetic study, the occasional inaccuracies of which are pointed out by Charles I. Glicksberg in his Walt Whitman and the Civil War. For Whitman's contemporary references to Lincoln, see pp. 644, 651, 959; his memorial lecture on Lincoln is given on pp. 752-762.

Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's theater in Washington, Good Friday night, April 14, 1865, and died the next morning, After the funeral in Washington, the funeral train passed through Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Indiana, to Springfield, Illinois, where the body was buried in the Oak Ridge Cemetery. Whitman makes use of this fact in his poem. An article in the Atlantic Monthly, June 1865,