Whitman, Walt — Memoranda During the War

Oxford University Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. 8vo., liv+176pp., illustrated with photos. As new in as new dust jacket. In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering. But Whitman also found there a "new world," a world dense with horror and revelation. Memoranda During the War is Whitman's testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. The book consists of journal entries extending from Whitman's arrival on the front in 1862 through to the war's conclusion in 1865. Whitman details his encounters with soldiers and doctors, meditates on particular battles and on the meanings of the war for the nation, and recounts his wordless though peculiarly intimate public exchanges with President Lincoln, a man Whitman saw often on the streets of Washington and by whom he was deeply fascinated. As New As New 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 186