The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1567920799 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 167 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not the best editing of Whitman's Journals Herschel Greenberg Walt Whitman wrote many journals, letters and diaries during his years volunteering at the hospitals in Washington DC. There are many books out there which claim to combine all those elements into one book. This book does an OK job of combining everything. The edi. John F Walker Jr said A Special Vision of War. Fabulous. This book collects Whitman's diary entries during the years he spent as part-time federal clerk and 'hospital visitor' in Washington hospitals during and after the Civil War. As a war vet, I have never seen such beautiful and balanced writing about the e
Accompanying the text are a series of 50 painstakingly reproduced period photographs capturing both the field hospitals where Whitman worked and the war leaders (Lincoln, Grant, Lee) he discusses. Whitman's grasp of specifics is reminiscent of Hemingway's similar approach to documenting the physical sights, sounds, and smells of the battlefield. Bill Ott. There is much here of interest to both Civil War buffs and students of Whitman. From Booklist Walt Whitman served as a volunteer nurse in Civil War hospitals from 1862 through 1865. Although some of this material has been previously published, it has never before appeared in the chronological sequence of the events described, thus producing the effect of a diary--something Whitman didn't keep (but wished he had) during the war years. The vividly written text reflects the author's reverence for the details of life (and death) in the hospitals. He recorded his experiences in hundreds of letters and "memoranda"
The unattended misery he found there -- rows of unburied corpses, piles of amputated limbs, wounded men lying on the frozen ground -- moved him to (as he wrote) "a profound conviction of necessity" that he had to help relieve it. This edition contains nearly 300 entries, and is further enhanced with over 50 compelling period photographs of the places, people, and events that Whitman captured so vividly in his prose.. Whitman spent the next four years, at great personal and professional sacrifice, working as a voluntary nurse at military hospitals in the frontline capital of Washington, tending the sick and wounded well past the war's end.The Sacrificial Year, is Walt Whitman's story of his involvement in the Civil War, and of his thoughts and feelings about this great crisis. In Late 1862, at the height of the Civil War, the poet and former newspaperman Walt Whitman traveled to a Virginia base camp in search of his wounded brother. Whitman himself never kept a diary of his experiences -- a fact he later regretted -- but he did write hundreds of letters