![]() The 40-year-old Hapgood, quiet and reserved, had prospered as a banker before the war. Whitman was melancholic, impulsive, bohemian. The two men, however close, were a study in contrasts. Smithsonian with its brown turrets - to the right, far across, Arlington Heights, the forts, eight or ten of them - then the long bridge” that spanned the Potomac River.Īt the end of the description, Whitman noted, “I finish my letter in the office of Major Hapgood, a paymaster, and a friend of mine.” The major was Lyman Hapgood, a native New Englander with a reputation “The Potomac, very fine, nothing pretty about it - the Washington monument, not half finished - the public grounds around it filled with ten thousand beeves, on the hoof - to the left the At one point, he gazed out of his fifth-floor window at the wartime capital.Īfter a long pause he resumed writing and described the vista. On the morning of March 20, 1863, Walt Whitman sat at his desk in a bustling office building in Washington and penned a letter to friends. Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. ![]()
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