The other book that Whitman wrote

From an article about Whitman’s words on war: ‘These "impromptu jottings" — descriptions of soldiers' last breaths; their recoveries; their requests for toothbrushes, pickles, rice pudding, fresh underwear, a good book, a pen, an ice cream treat, a letter to be sent home — later became "Memoranda During the War," a slim volume that Whitman published in a private edition in 1876 and later folded into the diary-like "Specimen Days." It now resurfaces — to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the first edition of "Leaves of Grass" — in an authoritative version, thoughtfully annotated and introduced by Peter Coviello, a professor of literature at Bowdoin College in Maine.’ I never knew it existed. Listen to this: ‘Arriving near the Virginia battlefield, the first thing Whitman came upon was "a heap of amputated feet, legs, arms, hands, &c., a full load for a one-horse cart." Throughout "Memoranda During the War," we find Whitman preoccupied with wholeness, yearning to reunite a severed country, to restore a Pennsylvania or Tennessee boy to health and home.’