Coal Black Horse, an American Civil War novel by Robert Olmstead, is poetry in prose, and a quest story both straightforward and profound. A mother —…
I’m way far from being an expert on battles, etc, nor am I a fan of pocket-Napoleon McClellan, yet the last sentence of the following…
Walt Whitman was ambivalent about alcohol. Many Whitman biographers believe his father was alcoholic, and a friend recorded that Whitman attributed his little brother’s developmental deficits to alcohol…
Walt Whitman gives beauty to the soldiers dying under his care in the hospital. The goriest, most wrenching passage in his Memoranda During the War…
Walt Whitman called Washington, D.C. a city of “romance,” “of things begun.” It might seem an odd description by a man who spent countless hours witnessing…
Monica Weber Babcock shares with us the mystery of her great-great-grandfather, a Union Civil War veteran. Monica is the author of the poetry collection Heartscape (available from Amazon) and…