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/creator |
Peck, Garrett |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Charleston, SC : History Press, 2015. |
| Description | 190 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
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| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014959296 |
| ISBN | 9781626199736 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1626199736 (paperback) |
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