Letter Walt Whitman Wrote for Dying Soldier Discovered in National Archives
In the backwash of the Civil War , American poet Walt Whitman on a regular basis bring down wounded soldier in hospital in and around Washington , D.C. He hand out modification , newspaper , and niggling snacks like Libyan Fighting Group and cracker to the wounded , as he described in an 1864 article forThe New York Times . The poet also offered comfort in another way : He wrote letters ....