This writer volunteered in hospitals during the Civil War and later captured his experiences in several powerful poems.
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- Walt Whitman
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This writer volunteered in hospitals during the Civil War and later captured his experiences in several powerful poems.
During the Civil War, Walt Whitman went to Virginia to nurse his brother George, who had been wounded in battle. Afterward, Whitman volunteered in army hospitals in Washington.