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Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C. : the Civil War and America's great poet

Title
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. Charleston, SC : History Press, 2015.
Author
  1. Peck, Garrett

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Description
  1. 190 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
  2. Whitman, Walt 1819-1892
  3. 1800-1899
  4. Poets, American > Washington (D.C.)
  5. 18.06 Anglo-American literature
  6. Poets, American
  7. Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
  8. Washington (D.C.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
  9. Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century
  10. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
  11. United States
  12. Washington (D.C.)
  13. Washington, DC
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index.