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Remembering, Not Composing: Clarifying the Record on "I'll Trace This Garden"

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Identifies a poetry manuscript in Whitman's hand as a flawed transcription of a folk song, popular during the Civil War, known as "Johnny is Gone for a Soldier."

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How to Cite: Jewell, A. (2002) “Remembering, Not Composing: Clarifying the Record on "I'll Trace This Garden"”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 20(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1702