... reader. He wrote unoriginal poems and stories for popular magazines and made political speeches, for which Tammany Hall democrats rewarded him with the editorship of various short-lived newspapers. For two years he edited the influential Brooklyn Eagle , but he lost his position for supporting the Free-Soil ... wrote in the months when he was ministering to the wounded in battlefield hospitals {Bloom, 205}. Other poems followed about the Civil War. An example of one would be a poem called Beat! Beat! Drums!' Beat! beat! drums!-blow! bugles! blow! Make no parley "stop for any ... Walt Wh...

• Word Count: 3004
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: High School