Walt Whitman's small notebook ... Beginning on the next page, Whitman turns directly to the disaster confronting the Union, addressing this fragmentary poem to “Libertad.” ...

His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman, Soldiers' Missionary ... he inserted a short new poem about Lincoln's death. A few weeks later, he wrote a longer elegy, "When ...

I first made acquaintance with Whitman's writings ... I bring to you no proud poem,' " I replied. O'Connor cried out, in his vehement way, "That's so, Walt, -- that's so!" "I think you are right ...