Many years ago, when I was involved in the Digital Whitman course that I’ve described, my UMW collaborator Dr. Brady Earnhart and I were asked to come on the public radio show With Good Reason. Since much of what we discussed was wartime Whitman, I thought some people might like to listen. Our part is about 15 minutes and includes a haunting clip of a song Brady Earnhart wrote about Whitman.
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I don’t know if it’s just my computer, but I can’t play the audio 🙁
I am able to play it at work and home, but here is the website:
https://withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/whitman-at-war/
I really enjoyed the idea of incompleteness that was brought up (the plans between Whitman and the soldiers, the soldiers’ lives, and the romantic relationships between Whitman and the men). I think that is what moves me the most reading Whitman and the Civil War—just how many lives Whitman saw cut off by death (the incompleteness of a life) and how he continued returning to hospitals and helping despite that.