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Discover the ways in which Civil War Americans thought disease traveled by smells and how they worked to stop its spread with good odors.
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Washington’s Civil War hospitals played host to a wide range of characters from President Abraham Lincoln to Walt Whitman.
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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.
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As the Civil War raged, poet Walt Whitman set up shop in the Union capital and volunteered in the city’s war-time hospitals.
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