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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.

Clapp, Henry [pages:18-20, 24-25, 150]
Clare, Ada [pages:21, 22, 24, 35, 150]
de Gurowski, Adam [pages:21, 88]
Eyre, Ellen [pages:35-36]
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.

Greeley, Horace [pages:19]
O'Brien, Fitz-James [pages:21, 24, 167]

MENTIONED IN - The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War

Arnold, George

Though many details about his early life are in dispute, scholars agree that Arnold was born in New York City and that his father may have been the Reverend George B. Arnold.

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