erences with the owner. Then for three months he traveled south to work for the New Orleans Crescent. "The sheer physical beauty of the new nation made a vivid impression on him, and he was to draw on this experience in his later poetry. His brief stay in New Orleans also led his early biographers to suggest an early romance with a Creole woman, for which there is no evidence." (Encarta)

There were four editions of Leaves of Grass and one last edition after his death. During the Civil War, he comforted Federal and Confederate soldiers. The Civil War greatly influenced him and his writing. He developed a case of malaria from visiting hospitals during this time. After getting better and earning a job as a clerk in the Indian Bureau of the Department of the Interior, he published Drum-Taps. This was a collection of po

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