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Article: Memoranda during the War.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Memoranda during the War. By Walt Whitman. Ed. by Peter Coviello. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. liv + 176 pp. 14-99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-516793-1.
The Civil War was a decisive turning-point in Whitman's career. On seeing his brother George's name listed among the casualties of the Battle of Fredericksburg, he left New York for Virginia in December 1862 to look for him. What he encountered there, and in the field hospitals in and around Washington, over the next three years was to change his life and work. Memoranda during the War is Whitman's account of the devastation of the war as he witnessed it, of his tender ministrations to the wounded ...