In Search of Walt Whitman, Part Two: The Civil War and Beyond (1861-1892)
- Director: Andrew D. Kaplan
- Writer: Alfred Robert Hogan, Andrew D. Kaplan
- Producer: Andrew D. Kaplan
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The poet moves to Washington to care for injured Civil War soldiers but is disillusioned by the Gilded Age after the war. He recovers from a debilitating stroke to live out his days in Camden NJ, where he continues to write poetry. Includes such renowned poems as "When Lilacs Last in the Doory'd Bloomed," "O Captain. My Captain!" "The Wound-Dresser," "Prayer of Columbus," and "Goodbye My Fancy."
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Cast & Characters
Andrew D. Kaplan (as Self / Narrator)
Richard S. Rose (as Walt Whitman)
Ed Folsom (as Self / Whitman Scholar)
Al Foote III (as Soldier 2 (as Al Foote))
Garrett Peck (as Self / Historian)
Kenneth M. Price (as Self / Whitman Scholar)
Rosemary Winslow (as Self / Poet / Whitman Scholar)