Discover the ways in which Civil War Americans thought disease traveled by smells and how they worked to stop its spread with good odors.
by David Price
Walt Whitman
Washington’s Civil War hospitals played host to a wide range of characters from President Abraham Lincoln to Walt Whitman.
Discover the man behind the poetry, as Garrett Peck introduces us to Walt Whitman the poet, the nurse, the brother, the lover, the clerk, the myth, and the man.
As the Civil War raged, poet Walt Whitman set up shop in the Union capital and volunteered in the city’s war-time hospitals.
