Essay Archive - Analysis of Whitman's "Drum Taps" and "The Wound Dresser"
Analysis of Whitman's "Drum Taps" and "The Wound Dresser"
Like most of the unprepared, naive Americans who believed the Civil
War would consist of a few short battles and little casualties, who then
after the war reached it's second year truly saw the Civil War for what it
really was- the bloodiest in America's history; Walt Whitman's "Drum Taps"
represents this ideal from start to finish. From the war's first battle in
1861 when Whitman saw the endeavor as a chance for the North to put to rest
all of the turmoil the South created, to....
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