Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started ... soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother.

Then, one day, I was stopped on Washington Street by a friend who made this startling announcement: "Walt Whitman is in town ... meanwhile the Civil War was raging, and in 1862 he went to the ...

But in either case, Ed Folsom, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive, says he sees them as the beginning of a complex allegory of the Civil War that the poet would continue developing in the ...

Later regarded as one of America's finest poets, Walt Whitman had already published ... Shocked at the carnage of the battlefield scene, Whitman decided to spend the war years visiting other ...

there are few better sources of inspiration than Walt Whitman, who spent more than three years volunteering his time during the U.S. Civil War. U.S. News // 3 months ago SS United States to be ...