Walt Whitman offers insights ... the leading literary figure of the era, praised Whitman highly, as did many other reviewers. Whitman published a new edition of the book in 1860 containing ...

When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt ... Whitman began making the rounds of the hospitals offering modest gifts of fruit, candy ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat pocket. Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his ...

I first made acquaintance with Whitman's writings when ... and "drank delight of battle" over books, the principal subjects being Shakespeare and Walt's own Leaves of Grass. Over Shakespeare ...

for this reason, it is easy to see why critics evinced from an early date an interest in considering the relationship between the two. William Eleazar Barton. Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.