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Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C. : the Civil War and America's great poet /
- Title
- Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C. : the Civil War and America's great poet / Garrett Peck ; foreword by Martin G. Murray, founder of the Washington Friends of Walt Whitman.
- Author
- Peck, Garrett,
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2015.
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- Description
- 190 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- United States
- Washington (D.C.)
- Poets, American
- Whitman, Walt (Walter), 1819-1892
- Poets, American > Washington (D.C.)
- 1800-1899
- Washington, DC
- 18.06 Anglo-American literature
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
- Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century
- Whitman, Walt 1819-1892
- History
- Washington (D.C.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
- Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index.
- Contents
- Walt Whitman, an American -- The city of army wagons -- The wound-dresser -- Nurses, stewards & surgeons -- The first disciples -- Hospital malaria -- Of a youth who loves me -- O captain! My captain! -- Drum-taps -- Pleasantly disappointed -- Democratic vistas -- The good gray poet.
- ISBN
- 9781626199736
- 1626199736
- LCCN
- 2014959296
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library