But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation ... His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman, Soldiers' Missionary." Small and Large Kindnesses These small ...

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 ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies topics including the Civil War, the impact of war on soldiers and their families, American literary history, the history of New York City ...

there are few better sources of inspiration than Whitman, who spent more than three years volunteering his time and energies during the U.S. Civil War. Walt Whitman is considered one of the ...

I did not see him again for three years and a half: meanwhile the Civil War was raging ... "Where's Walt?" -- the familiar name by which Whitman was known to his friends. "What a chance!" ...