Two Brothers - One North, One South
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Staghorn Press
Published: February 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780979689857
Subjects: Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction; Historical - General; War & Military; Fiction
Genres: Historical Fiction
First sentence: Moonlight glimmered on the distant capitol dome and cast long shadows from the gothic towers and battlements of the Smithsonian Institute.
Description: Walt Whitman, whose compassion for the wounded and dying soldiers of the American Civil War is well documented, navigates the journey of Two Brothers: One north, One South. The first chapter finds him at the bedside of William Prentiss, a mortally wounded Rebel soldier. As fate has it, William’s brother, Clifton, a Union officer, is being treated in another ward of the same hospital and Whitman becomes the sole link between the brothers. The reader is taken seamlessly from Baltimore before the war, to many battlefields where North and South collide, and to wartime Richmond, where Hetty, Jenny, and Constance Cary are the reigning belles.
Table of contents: title: Chapter One		Death and Remembrance; title: Chapter Two 		Opposing Sentiments; title: Chapter Three	Mob Town; title: Chapter Four		Call to the Colors; title: Chapter Five		Across the Potomac; title: Chapter Six		First Blood; title: Chapter Seven	Maryland, My Maryland; title: Chapter Eight	 Gala Days of War; title: Chapter Nine	Women at War; title: Chapter Ten 		My Poor Boys; title: Chapter Eleven	That Others Might Be Free; title: Chapter Twelve	Belles, Beaux, and Battles; title: Chapter Thirteen	Grant Moves South; title: Chapter Fourteen	At the Altar of Saint Paul’s; title: Chapter Fifteen	Communicating with the Enemy; title: Chapter Sixteen	Breakthrough at Petersburg; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix