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.
Edited and introduced by Peter Coviello, the book also includes
Whitman's famous speech "The Death of Abraham Lincoln," selected
poems, and a letter to the parents of a deceased soldier. Memoranda
During the War is a powerful portrait of a nation at war written by
one of our greatest poets.
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