Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.
the Civil War and America's great poet
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Author
Publication
2015 - History Press, Charleston, SC, South Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
47,500 words, Guess
Page Count
190 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101626199736
- ISBN-139781626199736
- Library of Congress Control Number2014959296
- OCLC Control Number899229789
- Better World Books9781626199736
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL30390529M
Classifications
- DDC811/.3
- LCCPS3232 .P43 2015
- LCCPS3232.P43 2015
Description
Walt Whitman was already famous for Leaves of Grass when he journeyed to the nation's capital at the height of the Civil War to find his brother George, a Union officer wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Whitman eventually served as a volunteer "hospital missionary," making more than six hundred hospital visits and serving over eighty thousand sick and wounded soldiers in the next three years. With the 1865 publication of Drum-Taps, Whitman became poet laureate of the Civil War, aligning his legacy with that of Abraham Lincoln. He remained in Washington until 1873 as a federal clerk, engaging in a dazzling literary circle and fostering his longest romantic relationship, with Peter Doyle. Author Garrett Peck details the definitive account of Walt Whitman's decade in the nation's capital.
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