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The epilogue looks at the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination and legacy through the eyes of the poet Walt Whitman. Volunteering in Washington’s hospitals during the war, Whitman frequently glimpsed the president. Though they never met, Whitman admired Lincoln and praised his leadership. Whitman wrote poems about Lincoln’s death, as well as prose in which he struggled to define and understand the “four years of bleeding, murky, murderous war” and the people’s role in fighting and dying for the nation. Whitman never stopped thinking about the Civil War, but he realized that it never could—and perhaps never should—be properly described. |
