jan 1, 1862 - Whitman Volunteers for Civil War
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Whitman served as a nurse in the Civil War and an assistant to the paymaster. He saw many wounded veterans, and was inspired to write "Drum-Taps". A gruesome and somber recollection of the events he saw, serving in the Civil War.
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Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
The life and death of two great American poets.
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