The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War

Morris, Roy Jr. The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Type

book

Genre

biography

history

Abstract

Morris explores the three years in which Walt Whitman tended to wounded soldiers during the Civil War.

People Mentioned in this Work

Aldrich, Thomas [pages: 21, 23-24]

Arnold, George [pages: 21, 23-24]

Benton, Myron [pages: 153]

Bloom, Nathaniel [pages: 120, 148]

Burroughs, John [pages: 4-5, 39, 150-54, 164-65, 186-87, 211, 240,]

Chauncey, Charles [pages: 38]

A member of the Fred Gray Association.

Clare, Ada [pages: 21, 22, 24, 35, 150]

de Gurowski, Adam [pages: 21, 88]

Eyre, Ellen [pages: 35-36]

Greeley, Horace [pages: 19]

O'Brien, Fitz-James [pages: 21, 24, 167]

The Fred Gray Association [pages: 38, 187]

Suggests that the group is named after a physician's son, Frederick Schiller Gray. Members included Frederick's brother Nat, Charles Chauncey, Charles Kingsley (an athlete), and Hugo Fritsch.