Now the drum of war : Walt Whitman and his brothers in the Civil War

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Label

Now the drum of war : Walt Whitman and his brothers in the Civil War

Title remainder

Walt Whitman and his brothers in the Civil War

Statement of responsibility

Robert Roper

Creator

• Roper, Robert, 1946-

Subject

• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Family
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
• Whitman, George W, 1839-1919
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
• Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography

Genre

• Biography
• Personal narratives

Language

eng

Summary

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

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

973.7/81

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

• PS3232
• E470

LC item number

• .R66 2008
• .R665 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography