Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America.
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Episodes
A Happy Hour's Command --- Sources of Character-Results-1860
Episode 1 · 50:47
Opening of the Secession of War --- Patent Office Hospital
Episode 2 · 28:25
The White House by Moonlight --- The Most Inspiriting of All War's Shows
Episode 3 · 29:00
Battle of Gettysburg --- Summer of 1864
Episode 4 · 33:23
A New Army Organization Fit for America --- A Model Hospital
Episode 5 · 22:23
Boys in the Army --- Death of President Lincoln
Episode 6 · 33:08
Sherman's Army's Jubilation-Its Sudden Stoppage --- The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
Episode 7 · 37:40
An Interegnum Paragraph --- Colors-A Contrast
Episode 8 · 42:21
Nover 8, '76 --- The Oaks and I
Episode 9 · 41:13
A Quintet --- Death of William Cullen Bryant
Episode 10 · 28:39
Jaunt Up the Hudson --- Wild Flowers
Episode 11 · 34:52
The Civility Too Long Neglected -- Meeting A Hermit
Episode 12 · 33:34
An Ulster County Waterfall -- Swallow on the River
Episode 13 · 30:05
Begin a Long Jaunt West -- The Women of the West
Episode 14 · 58:44
The Silent General -- Seeing Niagara to Advantage
Episode 15 · 21:47
Jaunting To Canada --- Death of Thomas Carlyle
Episode 16 · 28:51
Carlyle From American Points of View -- Millet's Pictures Last Items
Episode 17 · 51:18
Birds - Death of Longfellow
Episode 18 · 34:04
Starting Newspapers --- Nature and Democracy-Morality