Free to follow every thread. No paywall, no dead ends.
Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln | HearLore
— Curated category —
Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln
Walt Whitman and Abraham LincolnOn the 19th of February 1861, Abraham Lincoln traveled through New York City as president-elect. Walt Whitman stood among the crowd and watched this man who…
O Captain! My Captain!Walt Whitman moved to Washington, D.C. at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. He held government jobs with the Army Paymaster's Office and later the…
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'dWalt Whitman stood in the yard of his mother's home on the 14th of April 1865 when he heard that President Abraham Lincoln had been shot.