The 1872 edition spread these Civil War poems throughout the book, suggesting that the war formed an essential part of the American character. In 1881 Whitman was 62 years old and contemplating ...

Now, a current soldier is putting deep thoughts about that “internal war” in a book of poems he wrote. We talked to the author and mental health advocate. “It’s war, so you’re gonna ...

reader found to his surprise that Stephen Vincent Benét’s John Brown’s Body was readable and even thrilling, though a poem and a long ... went to war in 1861 with the 19th Illinois, was ...