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The better angel : Walt Whitman in the Civil War /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morris, Roy, Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the medicine of daily affection
  • New York stagnation
  • A sight in camp
  • The great army of the sick
  • The real precious & royal ones of this land
  • The melancholy tide
  • Retrievements out of the night
  • Epilogue : lose not my sons.