1860-1869
Timeline: 1860 through 1869
1860
1860, March
Walt Whitman is in Boston preparing third edition of Leaves of Grass.
1860, March 17
Ralph Waldo Emerson meets Walt Whitman on Boston Common and warns the New York poet about publishing some of the sexual poems planned for his new edition of Leaves of Grass.[1]
1860, March 19
Fred Vaughn writes to Walt Whitman.[2]
1860, March 23
Ralph Waldo Emerson lectures in New York City and discusses intimate friendships between men.[3]
1860, March 27
Fred Vaughn, in New York, writes to Walt Whitman in Boston.[4]
1860, April 30
- Fred Vaughn, in New York, writes to Walt Whitman in Boston.[5]
1860, May
- Walt Whitman publishes third edition of Leaves of Grass.[6]
1860, May 7
- Fred Vaughn, in New York, writes to Walt Whitman in Boston.[7]
1861
1862
1862, May
- Fred Vaughn writes to Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C. [8]
1862, May 18
The Richmond [Virginia] Daily Dispatch, in the Confederate capital, reports a large increase in "prostitutes of both sexes".[9]
1863
1863, winter
- James J. Archer, a Confederate General, is held prisoner on Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie, Ohio, and is alleged to have participated in a drinking party with "Captain Taylor" in which "they all got drunk together and got to hugging each other and saying that they had slept together many a time."[10]
1864
1864, March 20
- John J. Willey, of the First Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, quartered in Brandy Station, Virgina, writes to his wife about an all-male ball in which some of the men dressed as women.[11]
1864, April 3
- Oscar Cram of the Eleventh Massachusetts Infantry writes to a correspondent, "Ellen", telling her about an all-male ball that recently occurred.[12]
1865
1865, April 21
- William Anderson, a sailor, and Henry Smith, a petty officer on the USS SHamrock, docked in North Carolina, are charged with "holding improper indecent intercourse."[13]
1865, April 23
- John C. Smith and Louis Jerut, of the USS Shamrock, docked in North Carolina, are charged with "improper and indecent intercourse with each other."[14]
1865, October 30
- Seaman Henry Williams and ordinary seaman William Steward, of the Muscota, docked in Key West, Florida, are charged with an "unnatural crime", unspecified.[15]
1866
1867
1868
1868, May 6
1869
1869, Fall
Next: 1870-1879
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 126
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 125.
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 126.
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 126.
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 129
- ↑ http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/waltwhitman.html Library of Congres
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 129.
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 136.
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 134.
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 137.
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 135.
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 136.
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 134.
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 134
- ↑ Katz, Love Stories, 134.
