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100 1  Peck, Garrett |eauthor. |=^A1003266
245 10 Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C. : |bthe Civil War and America's great poet / |cGarrett Peck.
264  1 Charleston, SC : |bHistory Press, |c2015.
300    190 pages : |billustrations, map, portraits ; |c23 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references ([181]-185 and index.
520    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.
600 10 Whitman, Walt, |d1819-1892. |=^A17982
651  0 Washington (D.C.) |xHistory |yCivil War, 1861-1865. |=^A66058
651  0 Washington (D.C.) |xHistory |y19th century. |=^A29193
651  0 United States |xHistory |yCivil War, 1861-1865. |=^A12252
650  0 Poets, American |zWashington (D.C.) |=^A48931
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