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Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet
By Garrett Peck and Martin G. Murray
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“An energetic study of the famed writer’s time in the nation’s capital and the loves of his life” (Washington Independent Review of Books).
Walt Whitman was already famous for Leaves of Grass when he journeyed to Washington at the height of the Civil War to find his brother George, a Union officer wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Eventually, Whitman would serve 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. This fascinating blend of biography and history details the definitive account of Walt Whitman’s decade in the nation’s capital.
Includes photos!
Walt Whitman was already famous for Leaves of Grass when he journeyed to Washington at the height of the Civil War to find his brother George, a Union officer wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Eventually, Whitman would serve 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. This fascinating blend of biography and history details the definitive account of Walt Whitman’s decade in the nation’s capital.
Includes photos!
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Garrett Peck
Garrett Peck is a literary journalist, local historian and author of four books, including "The Potomac River: A History and Guide" and "Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: How Dry We Weren't". He leads the Temperance Tour of Prohibition-related sites in Washington. Peck is a VMI graduate. Richard Stamm is the Smithsonian Castle Collection Curator. He is the author of "The Castle, An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building" (Smithsonian Books, 1993).
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love reading stories about DC and its history, so when I spotted this title I knew that it would be something that would interest me. I'm not very familiar with the life of Walt Whitman, so everything I read between the pages was new information. There was so much packed into this small book, historical photos, fascinating stories and a few stanzas of Whitman poetry.
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