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

Garrett Peck

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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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet. To get started finding Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 412

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: N/A

Release: 2015

ISBN: 1625854854

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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet. To get started finding Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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

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

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