Walt is not religious, but he goes to the hospital chapel on every visit. Walt rescues her, but his landlady's cat kills her. Hank wants a pet bird, and Walt traps a cardinal for him. In the summer, Whitman sees President Lincoln almost every day, en route to his summer residence. Walt thinks diarrhea kills more boys than all the other afflictions combined. Union Square Hospital gets the worst cases but keeps them alive better than any other hospital in the city. His "radical" policies include washing hands and instruments, throwing out sponges, and swabbing everything with Labarraque's solution. Union Square is under the command of a brilliant drunk named Canning Woodhull. Walt brings oranges for him and the other soldiers he has money from sponsors and from his work as a copyist in the Paymaster's office. He kept his leg by threatening the surgeon with his father's pistol. Whitman goes to Union Square Hospital, and continues "visiting, talking, reading, fetching and helping." Months pass.
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On the train, Henry Smith, a boy with a leg wound, sings "Oh! Susanna" over and over again. He finally goes back to Washington in search of a transport.
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When George moves on with the troops, Walt remains, helping the wounded. "A great fretting buzz had started up in head, inspired by the pile of limbs and the smell of blood." He feels a deep satisfaction watching George sleep. He finds him at Falmouth, with the Fredericksburg wounded.
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Walt Whitman goes from Brooklyn to Washington to try to find his brother, George Washington Whitman. The story takes place during the Civil War.