Two Brothers: One North, One South

Navigated by Walt Whitman and closely based on real people and events, "Two Brothers: One North, One South" is the story of Clifton and William Prentiss who served on opposite sides during the American Civil War. The first chapter finds the poet 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.

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Tags: american, baltimore, civil, maryland, richmond, More…virginia, war
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