The Marrow Of Tragedy: Walt Whitman's Civil War Diary

by Lawrence Jay Switzer Whitman and Lawrence Jay Switzer

Book Overview

Prose by Walt Whitman. Book design by Lawrence Jay Switzer. Only two written "on the spot" accounts of the Civil War are known to exist. This prose diary by Walt Whitman is one of them. As a volunteer nurse during the war, he was in an "eyewitness" position to report on the devastating effects the first modern war had on the nation and its people. Illustrated with period photos, sketches, and engravings. Whitman's journal is intensely personal (rather...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1320985521
• ISBN13: 9781320985529
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Blurb
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"