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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.

Subject

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

OCLC

ocn899229789
899229789
SCSB-9643498

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library