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    Walt Whitman volunteered as a nurse in Washington D.C. hospitals during the Civil War. He had opposed slavery prior to the war and supported the Union cause. Whitman nursed countless wounded soldiers without pay from his own pocket. The war strengthened his patriotism and belief in American democracy. He wrote the poetry collection Drum Taps to process his experiences nursing soldiers, including poems mourning Abraham Lincoln after his assassination.

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    Walt Whitman volunteered as a nurse in Washington D.C. hospitals during the Civil War. He had opposed slavery prior to the war and supported the Union cause. Whitman nursed countless wounded soldiers without pay from his own pocket. The war strengthened his patriotism and belief in American democracy. He wrote the poetry collection Drum Taps to process his experiences nursing soldiers, including poems mourning Abraham Lincoln after his assassination.

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    Walt Whitman volunteered as a nurse in Washington D.C. hospitals during the Civil War. He had opposed slavery prior to the war and supported the Union cause. Whitman nursed countless wounded soldiers without pay from his own pocket. The war strengthened his patriotism and belief in American democracy. He wrote the poetry collection Drum Taps to process his experiences nursing soldiers, including poems mourning Abraham Lincoln after his assassination.

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    Walt Whitman and

    the Civil War

    BY:
    JUSTIN HARBERT
    KINDREA ALBRIGHT
    “I go around among these sights,
    among the crowded hospitals
    doing what I can, yet it is a mere
    drop in the bucket…the path I
    follow, I suppose I may say, is my
    own.”
    -Walt Whitman
    Whitman’s Early Life
    • Born on May 31,
    1819
    • Son of Walter
    Whitman and Louisa
    Von Velsor
    • Lived in Brooklyn
    and Long Island
    Before the Civil War

    • Printer
    • School
    Teacher
    • Journalist
    • New Orleans
    Crescent
    Whitman’s View on Slavery
    • Human Rights/Individual voice
    • Showed in his poetry, Song of Myself, X
    • Would protect slaves with his own life.
    • Felt slavery would kill the spirit of the nation
    • Viciousness of the slave market
    • New Orleans Daily Crescent
    • Racially mixed society
    • Found hope in democracy
    Support of the Civil War
    • Civil War – good for the Union
    • Beat, Beat The Drum, used to enlist troops
    George Washington Whitman
    • Joined 13th New
    York in Spring
    1961 and 51st in
    Fall
    • Hurt in Battle of
    Fredericksburg
    • Only minor
    injury to jaw
    Washington War Hospitals
    • Armory Square
    Hospital
    • Clerical Jobs
    • Used his own
    money
    • Countless
    Soldiers
    • Abraham Lincoln
    Video

    Video at www.pbs.org
    Drum Taps 1865
    • Series of poems written
    during the Civil War.
    • Whitman unable to find
    a publisher.
    • Had to print his work
    privately.
    • When near final
    publication, Abraham
    Lincoln assassinated.
    • Hush’d Be The Camps
    Today is the only
    Lincoln poem
    Abraham Lincoln
    • Fulfillment of
    prophecy
    • Never met
    Lincoln
    • Shared series of
    nods while at
    Armory Hospital
    • O Captain, My
    Captain
    Sequel to Drum Taps
    • 18 poems dedicated to Abraham
    Lincoln
    • Bound with original Drum Taps
    • Psychological examination of the war
    • When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard
    Bloom’d
    Whitman’s Love for America

    • Strengthened belief in Democracy


    • Hope that rich and poor would come
    together
    • Comrades
    • Union stronger than ever
    • Wanted all to be free
    His legacy
    References

    • www.pbs.org
    • www.waltwhitman.org
    • http://xroads.virginia.edu Whitman’s Drum
    Taps and Washington’s Civil War Hospitals by
    Angel Price

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