03125nam 2200685Ia 450 991095809730332120200520144314.00-19-992342-61-4294-0153-21-280-52815-X0-19-972686-8(CKB)2550000001204445(EBL)270834(OCoLC)814458920(SSID)ssj0000233361(PQKBManifestationID)11208088(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233361(PQKBWorkID)10240193(PQKB)11312192(StDuBDS)EDZ0000024469(Au-PeEL)EBL270834(CaPaEBR)ebr10142245(CaONFJC)MIL52815(OCoLC)26218248(FINmELB)ELB166740(MiAaPQ)EBC270834(EXLCZ)99255000000120444519920626d1993 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe Real war will never get in the books selections from writers during the Civil War /edited by Louis P. Masur1st ed.New York Oxford University Press19931 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-509837-4 0-19-985390-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index.Contents; Henry Brooks Adams; Louisa May Alcott; Lydia Maria Child; John Esten Cooke; John William De Forest; Frederick Douglass; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Charlotte Forten; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Herman Melville; William Gilmore Simms; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Walt Whitman; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y""These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife,) tried by terrible, fearfulest tests, probed deepest, the living soul's, the body's tragedies, bursting the petty bounds of art."" So wrote Walt Whitman in March of 1863, in a letter tellingfriends inAuthors, American19th centuryCorrespondenceAuthors, American19th centuryDiariesAmerican literature19th centuryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Literary collectionsUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Personal narrativesAuthors, AmericanAuthors, AmericanAmerican literature810.80358Masur Louis P475878MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910958097303321The Real war will never get in the books4447413UNINA