![]() ![]() ![]() Whitman: “The volcanic upheaval of the nation, after that firing on the flag at Fort Sumter, proved for certain something which had been previously in great doubt.” Indeed, the beginning of the war In the coming days, the news from Charleston unified skeptics in the North behind a belief that “secession slavery” constituted a palpable evil that had to be confronted. The crowd, which had increas’d from thirty or forty, but all stood a minute or two, I remember, before they dispers’d.” “For the benefit of some who had no papers, one of us read the telegram aloud, while all listen’d silently and attentively,” he wrote. Fort Sumter, they reported, had been shelled in the wee hours Whitman bought a paper and, near Prince Street, crossed Broadway, where he found a crowd reading the papers under the gas lamps of the Metropolitan Hotel. Library of Congress Walt Whitman in the early 1860s. ![]()
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