Memoranda During the War

Name: Memoranda During the War
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ISBN: 9780195307184

ISBN-10: 0195307186

ISBN-13: 9780195307184

Edition: 2006

Authors: Walt. Whitman, Peter Coviello

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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…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.39" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



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Introduction



Selected Bibliography


Memoranda During the War


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Editor's Notes



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