Learning from the Source: Whitman on Lincoln – Putting Loss into Words

Learning from the Source: Whitman on Lincoln – Putting Loss into Words

During the civil war Walt Whitman worked in Washington D.C. and spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers in the hospital. He was a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln whom he saw around the city frequently. Like many, Whitman was deeply saddened at the loss of  President Lincoln, assassinated at Ford’s Theatre on…