Whitman and the Casualties of the American Civil War

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***FOR THIS ESSAY: Write a 9 page paper in length on the following topic. Try to incorporate AT LEAST
TWO secondary sources (e.g., useful claims from a critical essay, relevant biographical information, brief
historical contextualization), and providing a short bibliography of works consulted, but your paper’s
emphasis should remain on comparative close-reading and interpretation of primary texts.
You MUST include a works cited page at the end of the paper with ALL sources used throughout the paper.
Include In-text citations throughout the paper when using direct quotes, paraphrasing, or any other sources
needed for in-text citations and you MUST cite all in the works cited page as well. Incorporate all poems
below that are asked to be read, in the essay either with direct quotes or paraphrasing and CITE in the
works cited page. Have at least 4 sources used and if more are used be sure to cite them as well in works
cited page.
***FOR THE ESSAY: *(BACKGROUND INFO)*: The American poet Walt Whitman served in the Union
army as a nurse during the Civil War (1861–5), personally witnessing the carnage of that savage conflict,
and like the rest of the citizens of the North, he endured the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in
the war’s closing days. Whitman’s poems of the period reveal how difficult it must have been for a patriot
and a lifelong advocate of peaceful coexistence to live through this fratricida