The poet, Walt Whitman, acts as the only link between William and Clifton Prentiss, brothers who fought on opposite sides during the Civil War but now stay at the same hospital in Washington, D.C.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Brothers, Fiction.
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Fiction.