Whitman lived in Washington, for a decade from 1863 to 1873, when he wrote many of his famed Civil War poems, such as "Drum-Taps," which later folded into "Leaves of Grass." ...

Whitman sang the praises of America with his words and served his country as a nurse during its Civil War. The quantity and quality of his poems make it impossible to do them justice in one short ...

When Whitman's brother was wounded in the Civil War in 1863, Whitman moved from Brooklyn to Washington to help in the overcrowded Union military hospitals. Though he had no military or medical ...

"Some of the most powerful Whitman-inspired music emerges out of his Civil War poetry," Folsom said — Paul Hindemith's Lincoln requiem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," for instance ...

In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn, visiting his family and going over proofs of Drum-Taps, poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated.

As he wrote his seminal collection of Civil War poetry, Drum-Taps, Whitman was also caring for thousands of soldiers in Washington hospitals and working as a low-level government clerk. Dr.

The great American poet Walt Whitman was born 200 years ago today. His monumental work was "Leaves Of Grass" first published in 1855. But Whitman was also a poet of the Civil War.

W hen Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, it drew some savage reviews. The splenetic Rufus W. Griswold (famous for slandering the dead Edgar Allan Poe) could barely contain his fury.