A reading of Walt Whitman’s 1863 letter to the parents of Erastus Haskell, a wounded soldier during the Civil War that Whitman befriended and cared for, until Haskell’s death.
The letter can be found in the best account of Whitman’s life during the Civil War, Roy Morris Jr.’s “The Better Angel: Walt Whitman & the Civil War”: https://www.amazon.com/Better-Angel-Walt-Whitman-Civil/dp/0195124820/
The full edition of Whitman’s letters can. E purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/Correspondence-Volumes-Collected-Writings-Whitman/dp/0814794270
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