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Now the drum of war, Walt Whitman and his brothers in the Civil War, Robert Roper

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-409) and index

contains biographical information

illustrationsportraits

index present

non fiction

Now the drum of war

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192082388

Robert Roper

Walt Whitman and his brothers in the Civil War

Drawing on the searing letters that Walt, George, their mother Louisa, and their other brothers, wrote to each other during the Civil War, and on new evidence and new readings of the great poet, Now the Drum of War chronicles the experience of the Whitman family--from rural Long Island to working-class Brooklyn--enduring its own long crisis alongside the anguish of the nation