Tag: The Better Angels

• 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