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Exceptionally researched and keenly actual to real occasions, this harrowing novel expands upon the tale of poet Walt Whitman, whose documented compassion for the wounded and death squaddies of the Civil struggle brings him to Armory sq. sanatorium in Washington, DC, at the bedside of insurgent soldier William Prentiss. simply after the combating has ended, William’s brother Clifton, a Union officer, is admitted into one other ward of an identical health center, and Whitman turns into the only hyperlink among the 2 boys and their fractured family. Through their tale, the narrative is swept from the sanatorium to Medfield Academy in Baltimore, the place the Prentiss relations makes its domestic, and onwards to the drawing rooms of high-society Richmond and the battlefields the place North and South collide.

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