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The Better Angel : Walt Whitman in the Civil War by Roy Morris, Jr.; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Better Angel : Walt Whitman in the Civil War about?
On May 26, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote to his mother: "O the sad, sad things I see--the noble young men with legs and arms taken off--the deaths--the sick weakness, sicker than death, that some endure, after amputations...just flickering alive, and O so deathly weak and sick." For nearly three years, Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experience with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anyw
Who reads The Better Angel : Walt Whitman in the Civil War?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Roy Morris, Jr.; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198028895
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Rating
- 4.25 / 5 (103 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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