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Still More War. Eliza Richards, Alice Fahs, M. L. Rosenthal, J. D. McClatchy, Randall Fuller, and Ed Folsom on Whitman’s war poems. Philip Beidler on trauma, Whitman’s illness. Poems from Drum-Taps, “The Wound-Dresser,” “The Artilleryman’s Vision,” and others.
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Eliza Richards, Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the United States Civil War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019: 1, 13. See Alice Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and the South . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Fahs is accurate about the drug addiction that resulted from this war in particular.
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M. L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall, The Modern Poetic Sequence, 91.
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J. D. McClatchy, “Introduction,” Poets of the Civil War. New York: Library of America, 2005: xxiii.
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Richard Marius, “Introduction,” The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994: xxvii, xxx.
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James E. Miller, Jr. A Critical Guide to Leaves of Grass. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957: 63, 158–59.
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Randall Fuller, From Battlefields Rising. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011: 139.
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Jennifer Haytock. The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature. New York: Routledge, 2018. Angus Fletcher, “Book of a Lifetime,” Marcus and Sollors, 311.
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Ed Folsom, “Lucifer and Ethiopia: Whitman, Race, and Poetics Before the Civil War and After,” A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman, ed. David S. Reynolds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000: 45–95. Richard Gray, A Brief History of American Literature. Chichester: Wiley, 2011.
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Walter Lowenfels. Walt Whitman’s Civil War. New York: Knopf, 1961: vii, x ff.
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Whitman, “Specimen Days,” Library, 712–13.
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Whitman, “The Wound-Dresser,” Library, 443–45.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 17–18.
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Letter of March 19, 1863, to Nathanial Bloom and John F. S. Gray, quoted in Loving, Walt Whitman, 1.
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Philip Beidler, “Veterans, Trauma, Afterwar,” War and American Literature, 71–86. He also usefully extends PTSD into many other causative life experiences. Trauma is trauma; the term can be used in many areas of medicine and culture.
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Beidler, “Veterans, Trauma, Afterwar,” War and American Literature, 72–75.
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Ibid., 78. After 240 days, the military then would use established protocols of “rest, rotation, and reassignment to rear area places of relative safety”.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 266–75.
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Whitman, “The Artilleryman’s Vision,” Library, 450–51.
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Whitman, “Not Youth Pertains to Me,” Library, 452. A pair poem is “Look Down Fair Moon,” in that it reveals Whitman’s role in the dying men’s reconciliations.
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Whitman, “Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun,” Library, 447.
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Whitman, “An Army Corps on the March,” Library, 435.
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Whitman, “How Solemn as One by One,” Library, 455.
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Whitman, “Lo, Victress on the Peeks,” Library, 455.
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Wagner-Martin, L. (2021). Still More War. In: Walt Whitman. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77665-7_9
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