. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . The most individual of American poets was born at Westhills, Long Island, in 1809, the son of a carpenter. Heearly learned the trade of printing; at twenty he was editor and publisher of a paper. For man3 years he was trav-eling all over the West of that day, from New Orleans to Canada. In 1855 he brought out the first edition ofLeaves of Grass, at first a thin volume of ninety-four pages, later growing until it had become several times thesize of the original. At the end of the second year of the Civil War, Whitman went to Washing
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . The most individual of American poets was born at Westhills, Long Island, in 1809, the son of a carpenter. Heearly learned the trade of printing; at twenty he was editor and publisher of a paper. For man3 years he was trav-eling all over the West of that day, from New Orleans to Canada. In 1855 he brought out the first edition ofLeaves of Grass, at first a thin volume of ninety-four pages, later growing until it had become several times thesize of the original. At the end of the second year of the Civil War, Whitman went to Washington to care for hisbrother, who had been wounded in the battle of Fredericksburg. For the next three years he served as an armynurse, chiefly in the hospitals of Washington. The literary outcome of this experience was Drum Taps, fromwhich the poems in the present volume are taken, and which he described as a little book containing lifes darknessand blood-dripping wounds and psalms of the dead. For several years after the war he remained in Governmentemploy i
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