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A memento inspires a Union soldier’s great-grandson to research an encounter with the poet. For years my family has stored away a collection of Civil War–period images, including cartes de visite (CDVs), daguerreotypes and tintypes. The item that has fascinated me the most is an autographed CDV of Walt Whitman, the American poet who frequently …
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