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Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C

Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C The Civil War and America's Great Poet

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781626199736
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: The History Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 811.3
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 190
Weight: 417g
Height: 226mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 13mm