TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morris,Roy
TI  - The better angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War 
SN  - 142376076X
AV  - PS3232 .M67 2000eb
U1  - 811/.3B 22
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Oxford [England], New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Whitman, Walt,
KW  - Whitman, Walt
KW  - Whitman, Walt.
KW  - Poets, American
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Poetry as Topic
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - Warfare
KW  - Poètes américains
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Poésie
KW  - poetry
KW  - aat
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - War
KW  - fast
KW  - War work
KW  - Sezessionskrieg
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - gnd
KW  - Literatura norte-americana (critica e interpretacʹao)
KW  - larpcal
KW  - American poets
KW  - sears
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
KW  - Participation des civils
KW  - 1861-1865, Civil War
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - collective biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes chapter notes (pages 245-258), bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index; Introduction : the medicine of daily affection -- New York stagnation -- A sight in camp -- The great army of the sick -- The real precious & royal ones of this land -- The melancholy tide -- Retrievements out of the night -- Epilogue : lose not my sons
N2  - On May 26, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote to his mother: "O the sad, sad things I see - the noble young men with legs and arms taken off - the deaths - the sick weakness, sicker than death, that some endure, after amputations ... just flickering alive, and O so deathly weak and sick." For nearly three years, Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experience with immediacy and compassion. In this book, biographer Roy Morris, Jr. gives us an account of Whitman's profoundly transformative Civil War Years and an historically important examination of the Union's treatment of its sick and wounded. Whitman was mired in depression as the war began, subsisting on journalistic hackwork, wasting his nights in New York's seedy bohemian underground, his "great career" as a poet apparently stalled. But when news came that his brother George had been wounded at Fredericksburg, Whitman rushed south to find him. Though his brother's injury was slight, Whitman was deeply affected by his first view of the war's casualties
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