Daily Eagle Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate Eagle
Daily Eagle Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate Eagle
Daily Eagle Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate Eagle
1819 Born May 31 at West Hills, Huntington Township, Long Island, New York.
1841–47 Reporter and editor for various newspapers. Editor (1846) of Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Published
(1842) Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate, a tract.
1848 Discharged from the Eagle. Visited New Orleans (worked on New Orleans newspaper) and traveled
on the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.
1855 First edition of Leaves of Grass published in July. It contained twelve poems and a prose preface.
1860 Third edition of Leaves of Grass. Traveled to Boston to discuss the preparation of this edition with
Emerson.
1862–63 Went to Virginia to attend brother George, who had been wounded in Civil War, Did volunteer
work in government hospitals.
1863–73 Lived most of the time in Washington, D.C. Worked for the government.
1864 Drum-Taps published.
1873 Suffered mild paralytic stroke. Moved to Camden, New Jersey. Mother died.
1876 Sixth edition of Leaves of Grass.
1881 Visited Boston to prepare the seventh edition of Leaves of Grass, published that same year.
1882 Specimen Days published.
1888 November Boughs published.