This is amazing news.

Now, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher has discovered nearly 3,000 previously unknown Whitman documents from that era — a trove of information that sheds new light on the legendary poet’s post-war thinking, as well as on Whitman’s published reflections on the state of the nation.

The documents they found were things he had transcribed in his work as a scribe at the attorney general’s office in D.C.

They’ll be available online later on in the year at http://www.whitmanarchive.org.