Every Night for a Thousand Years
The story takes place during the Civil War. Walt Whitman goes from Brooklyn to Washington to try to find his brother, George Washington Whitman. He finds …
On Walt Whitman searching for his brother among Civil War wounded: "He stood before a pile of amputated limbs, arms and legs of varying lengths, all black and blue and rotten in the chill. A thin layer of snow covered some of them. He circled the heap, thinking he must recognize his brother's hand if he saw it."