American History
During the American Civil War, Walt Whitman wrote insightful pieces that captured the war from an angle that reflected an understanding of the daily effects of the reality of the war on everyone involved.
Whitman himself was effected by the war from almost the beginning when, after riding with a trainload of wounded men on the way to Washington, he decided to take a job at the Army Paymaster's Office. He stayed there for three years, where he kept the company of wounded soldiers, befriending those victims of the war.
Whitman understood a sense of despair in the country before the war, which is expressed in his poetry. He thought the cause of the war was one that came from within the country and his poetry focused on the individual impact the war had on people as opposed to writing about the larger issues such a s emancipation, slavery, and reconstruction. Poems such as "Two Brooklyn Boys," "A New York Soldier," "Bad Wounds, the Young," and "A Secesh Brave" emphasize this focus on the common men of the war rather than the generals and battles of the larger picture. It is Whitman's view and his vision of that time that many claim gave the war a soul and a face.
As Whitman's poetry took a more focused look...
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