Another messy detail. Lincoln is always here, always relevant, because we’re still fighting the Civil War. There’s no other ...

Whitman decided to spend the war years visiting other wounded soldiers in Union field hospitals and, even though untrained, working as a volunteer nurse.

With the onset of the Civil War, Whitman’s brother enlisted ... Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Whitman nonetheless felt that he had something important to offer.

In the process, Americans were forced to reconfigure ideas about death and the Civil War body. Volunteer nurse Walt Whitman often wrote to his mother about his hospital visits and recorded his ...

(Perhaps this notebook was in his pocket that day.) Later, when Whitman lived in Washington during the Civil War, he often stood near the corner of 14th and L Streets to glimpse Lincoln en route ...