books.google.com.ph - When Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--the bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape and character of American culture along with its political, racial, and social landscape. Prior to the war,...http://books.google.com.ph/books/about/From_Battlefields_Rising_How_The_Civil_W.html?hl=tl&id=G-HKvPJqZDYC&q=poet&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFrom Battlefields Rising:How The Civil War Transformed American Literature
