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

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

Garrett Peck

194 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography history poetry challenging reflective medium-paced

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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 volunt...

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