In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn, visiting his family and going over proofs of Drum-Taps, poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated.

Transcript of Albion Hubbard Letter, Dictated to Walt Whitman Washington Friday evening June 12th 1863 Dear friend, As I have a favorable opportunity, by means of a visitor to the hospital, who is ...

"War" takes a look at how the Civil War shaped Walt Whitman's life and poetry. Minneapolis. 5°F. eEdition. The Latest. 31 minutes ago. Trump says inflation isn’t his No. 1 issue.

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...

This is most definitely not the Walt Whitman you encountered in high school, or the "Good Gray Poet" you thought you understood in college. In fact, forget virtually everything you thought you ...

A scholar who uncovered extensive Civil War records handwritten by Walt Whitman unveiled his findings Tuesday at the National Archives, saying they can reveal how the famous author's work as a ...

WASHINGTON — In 1888, four years before he died, the aging poet Walt Whitman showed a friend an old leather shoulder bag hanging on the wall of his home in Walt Whitman’s Civil War bag to be ...

Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War Robert Roper, . . Walker, $28 (421pp) ISBN 978-0-8027-1553-1 ...

Memoranda During the War Walt Whitman, edited by Peter Coviello Oxford University Press: 176 pp., $25. News. ... ,” a grisly scientific chronicle devoted to the Civil War’s 625,000 casualties, ...

Dr. Kenneth Price explores Walt Whitman's life in Washington during the Civil War. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress Tuesday, March 20 Walt Whitman and the Civil War ...

The National Archives announced Tuesday that it has nearly 3,000 newly discovered documents from Walt Whitman's time as a federal employee, detailing the poet's work in Washington after the Civil War.