[PDF] Memoranda During The War eBook

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : 1557091323

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During the Civil War, from 1862-1865, Walt Whitman spent much of his time with wounded soldiers, both in the field and in the hospitals. The 40 notebooks he filled became the basis for the extraordinary diary of a medic in the Civil War.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781437967081

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This is Walt Whitman¿s testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. It consists of journal entries extending from Whitman¿s arrival on the front in 1862 through to the war¿s conclusion in 1865. He details his encounters with soldiers and doctors, meditates on particular battles and on the meanings of the war for the nation, and recounts his wordless though intimate public exchanges with Pres. Lincoln. Offers an amalgam of death portraits, anecdotes of battle, last words, messages to distant loved ones, and remarkably restrained and muted descriptions of pain, dismemberment, and dying. Includes Whitman¿s famous speech ¿The Death of Abraham Lincoln,¿ selected poems, and a letter to the parents of a deceased soldier. Illustrations.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0486140814

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While serving as a volunteer at military hospitals, the poet recorded soldiers' anecdotes of army life, their last words and final messages, and his own reflections on the Civil War.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190294531

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In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering. But Whitman also found there a "new world," a world dense with horror and revelation. Memoranda During the War is Whitman's testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. The book consists of journal entries extending from Whitman's arrival on the front in 1862 through to the war's conclusion in 1865. Whitman details his encounters with soldiers and doctors, meditates on particular battles and on the meanings of the war for the nation, and recounts his wordless though peculiarly intimate public exchanges with President Lincoln, a man Whitman saw often on the streets of Washington and by whom he was deeply fascinated. The book offers an astounding amalgam of death portraits, anecdotes of battle, last words, messages to distant loved ones, and remarkably restrained and muted descriptions of pain, dismemberment, and dying--all of it, however grim, suffused with Whitman's undiminished enthusiasm and affection for these young soldiers. And throughout, we find Whitman laboring with heroic determination to sustain and nourish his once-ardent faith in America and American life, even as the nation unleashed unprecedented violence upon itself.