Walt Whitman & The Civil War

From the historic battlefield at Gettysburg , Pennsylvania , distinguished actor Richard Kiley and The First Poetry Quartet present a memorable program of Walt Whitman's poems about the Civil War.  Out of the turmoil of this war came Whitman's Drum-Taps - poetry that spoke not only of the tragedy of the conflict, but also the promise of a young nation and its people.

Includes the following and more...
"First O Songs for a Prelude" (excerpt)
"As I Ponder’d in Silence"
"Eighteen Sixty-One"
"Dirge for Two Veterans" (excerpt)
"Camps of Green" (excerpt)
"Reconciliation"
"O Captain! My Captain!"
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" (excerpt)
"I Hear America Singing"