The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War

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Bibliographic Information

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

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 Bailey [pages: 21, 23-24]
Arnold, George [pages: 21, 23-24]
Benton, Myron Beecher [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 Jr. [pages: 18-20, 24-25, 150]
Clare, Ada [pages: 21, 22, 24, 35, 150]
de Gurowski, Adam Count [pages: 21, 88]
Eyre, Ellen [pages: 35-36]
Fred Gray Association, The [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]