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In Autumn, In Ohio, Long Ago: Walt Whitman’s “Come Up From The Fields Father”

By buckeyemuse | November 22, 2016

I was leafing through the “Drum-Taps” section of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass a few years ago and reread many of the poems in this section, including “Come Up From The Fields Father.” As had happened many times before, I was moved by the compassion and tenderness that are present throughout this section of Whitman’s…

January 1, 1864: Albion Tourgee is discharged from the Union Army

By buckeyemuse | January 2, 2014

January 1, 1864: Albion Tourgee is discharged from the Union Army. Albion Tourgee is one Ohio writer who deserves to be better known. Tourgee was a novelist, lawyer, soldier, and judge who made much of his life’s work the advancement of black Americans. Tourgee went south after the Civil War and was one of the…

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