The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War
Oxford University Press | July 27, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0195124820 | 288 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB
On May 26, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote to his mother: "O the sad, sad things I see–the noble young men with legs and arms taken off–the deaths–the sick weakness, sicker than death, that some endure, after amputations…just