Walt Whitman

By Barbara Kerley

Subjects: Juvenile literature, History, Biography, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, Whitman, walt, 1819-1892, Medical care, Poets, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, American Poets, Nurses, Whitman, walt, 1819-1892, juvenile literature

Description: A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.