Civil War Mystery

And I too of the Mannahatta, singing thereof and no less in myself than the whole of the Mannahatta in itself, ["Leaves of Grass," 1855] Joseph Alfred Scoville (rhymes with shovel )[1], born in 1815, was one of the poor boys of Connecticut who came to New York to get rich in business. The secret of their success, Scoville later wrote, was the perfect willingness to be useful and to do what they…