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Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet
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Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet
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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.
| Author: Garrett Peck |
| Publisher: History Press Library Editions |
| Publication Date: Mar 23, 2015 |
| Number of Pages: 194 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1540213854 |
| ISBN-13: 9781540213853 |
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