Serving under General Sheridan, Rick O'Shay enjoyed the sound of the bugles and the drilling with the horses. It all seems wonderful to the half-starved, ill-ca

Walter "Walt" Whitman (1819 - 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and rea

Poems, letters, and prose from the war years include "O Captain! My Captain!" "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Adieu to a Soldier," and many other m