Tag: Drum-taps

• Walt Whitman in the Civil War

  

  I worry that a book like THE BETTER ANGEL by Roy Morris Jr.  in 2000 would not get written today because Walt Whitman, despite nursing thousands of young, suffering soldiers in overfilled hospitals who fought a war that freed slaves, expressed what we consider today to be offensive (and ignorant) opinions about slaves.   Racism…

  Adrienne Morris

  February 5, 2019

  books, Books I’ve Known and Loved, Uncategorized

  Civil War Hospitals, Drum-taps, forgiveness, Nursing Civil War, Poetry, Roy Morris, The Better Angels, Walt Whitman in the Civil War

• THE WOUND-DRESSER. walt whitman

  1 An old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer to children, Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me, (Arous’d and angry, I’d thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war, But soon my fingers fail’d me, my face droop’d and…

  Adrienne Morris

  September 2, 2014

  19th Century Art, United States History, Writing

  Death, Drum-taps, Life, The Wound-dresser, Walt Whitman, war poetry, Winslow Homer, Writers