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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

Benton, Myron

Little is known of Myron Benton’s early life. Myron was the cousin of Joel Benton and brother to Charles Benton. He was born and died in Troutbeck, NY.

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