Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War firsthand as a volunteer in Washington's military hospitals. This superb selection of poems, letters, and prose from that era includes "O Captain! My Captain!" "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Adieu to a Soldier," and many other moving works.
A superb selection of poems, letters and prose from the war years. "O Captain! My Captain!," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Adieu to a Soldier," many other letters and prose works.