During the War for Southern Independence, Walt Whitman was a self-styled "missionary" to the Army hospitals in Washington, D.C. Whitman would visit the wounded, tried to comfort them the best he could, and helped to write letters. Whitman's poetry has an optimistic tone early in the war, but his poetry becomes more melancholy as the conflict continues. His poetry about Abraham Lincoln's death is quite moving. Included in Dover's anthology are journal entries as well as significant letters written during the war. Some of the poetry selections include "Beat! Beat! Drums!" "Cavalry Crossing a Ford," "An Army Corps on the March," "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night," "The Artilleryman's Vision," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain! My Captain!"

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