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The Better Angel

The Better Angel

Morris, Roy

Paperback

Historical FiguresLiterary FiguresCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 019514709X
ISBN13: 9780195147094
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 20 2001
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.11
Language: English
For nearly three years, Walt Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experiences with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anywhere in the world.
In The Better Angel, acclaimed biographer Roy Morris, Jr. gives us the fullest account of Whitman's profoundly transformative Civil War years and an historically invaluable examination of the Union's treatment of its sick and wounded. Whitman was mired in depression as the war began, subsisting on journalistic hackwork, 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. Deeply affected by his first view of the war's casualties, he began visiting the camp's wounded and found his calling for the duration of the war. Three years later, he emerged as the war's most unlikely hero, a living symbol of American democratic ideals of sharing and brotherhood.

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