Whitman between 1866 and 1869 (photo W. Kurtz): "the sombrero picture--the nice adjustment between light and shade..."

Weeks 1 - 10

Week 1: The Million Dead

Week 2: Song of Myself War Scenes

Week 3: Whitman and the Civil War

Week 4: Year of Meteors

Week 5: Drum Taps

Week 6: Beat Beat Drums

Week 7: Opening of the Secession War

Week 8: Down at the Front

Week 9: Cavalry Crossing a Ford

Week 10: When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

Photo A. Gardner, 1863. According to Whitman, "the best picture of all...".

Weeks 11 - 20

Week 11: Walt Whitman to Margaret S. Curtis

Week 12: The Dresser

Week 13: Patent Office Hospital and Inauguration Ball

Week 14: Mother and Babe and Vigil Strange I Kept

Week 15: A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest

Week 16: A Sight in Camp in the Day-Break Grey and Dim

Week 17: Walt Whitman Letter to Haskells

Week 18: Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun

Week 19: Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice

Week 20: Come Up from the Fields Father

Photograph by J. W. Black of Black and Batchelder, Boston

Weeks 21 - 30

Week 21: The Veteran's Vision

Week 22: Letter from Whitman to His Mother

Week 23: Hymn of Dead Soldiers

Week 24: Pioneers! O Pioneers!

Week 25: Whitman on Abraham Lincoln

Week 26: Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day

Week 27: When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd Part One

Week 28: When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd Part Two

Week 29: Chanting the Square Deific

Week 30: I Heard You, Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ

Photograph by Alexander Gardner, ca. 1865

Weeks 31 - 36

Week 31: Two Brothers, One South, One North

Week 32: Convulsiveness and Three Years Summ'd Up

Week 33: Reconciliation

Week 34: To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod

Week 35: Ethiopia Saluting the Colors

Week 36: The Real War Will Never Get in the Books