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The Wages of Class. Lawson, Isenberg, and Wilkerson on the war in terms of economics. Whitman’s “Specimen Days” accounts. “Ashes of Soldiers” and other poems.
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Whitman, “Abraham Lincoln,” “Specimen Days,” Library 732–33.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 280–85. Very few of the 1000 soldiers who had left New York at the start of the conflict had survived—George Whitman had gone through many of the worst battles, but being a prisoner of war nearly cost him his life.
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Paul Fussell,The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975: 71.
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Whitman, “How Solemn as One by One,” Library, 453.
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Whitman, “Spirit Whose Work Is Done,” Library, 456.
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Whitman, “To a Certain Civilian,” Library, 455.
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Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Library, 459–67.
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J. D. McClatchy, “Introduction,” Poets of the Civil War, xxvi; Randall Fuller, From Battlefields Rising, 217; Alfred Habegger, “My Wars Are Laid Away in Books”, 491, 93.
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William Carlos Williams, “Abraham Lincoln,” In the American Grain. New York: New Directions, 1925: 234–35. More recently, George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the British Man Booker Prize in 2017, gives expression, both linguistically and vocally in its recording of more than two hundred voices, to the evocative power of the Lincoln story.
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Wagner-Martin, L. (2021). Whitman and Lincoln. In: Walt Whitman. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77665-7_10
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