Letters reveal Walt Whitman`s other job: Government clerk
(WorldNews Politics)

WASHINGTON - American poet Walt Whitman is renowned for his classic poetry and for his constant attention to the maimed warriors of the Civil War. With so much attention focused on his literary prowess and on the many hours he spent in the war`s hospital wards, little is known about how he made a living in the nation`s capital for nearly a decade during and after the Civil War. On Tuesday, a cache of nearly 3,000 documents in Whitman`s handwriting were unveiled by Whitman scholar and co-editor of the whitmanarchive.org website, Kenneth...