Walt whitman

The Life of Walt Whitman

By polkadottie

  • Factories Begin in the North

    Factories Begin in the North
  • Period: to

    Walt Whitman's Life

  • Walt Whitman is Born

    Walt Whitman is Born

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

  • Marquis de Lafayette visits Brooklyn and, according to Whitman, embraces him.

    Marquis de Lafayette visits Brooklyn and, according to Whitman, embraces him.

  • Learns Printing Business

    Learns Printing Business

  • Underground Railroad Begins

    Underground Railroad Begins

  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion

  • Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott Case

  • Goes to New Orleans with Brother Jeff

    Goes to New Orleans with Brother Jeff

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

  • Fugittive Slave Act

    Fugittive Slave Act

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Novel Published

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Novel Published

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career."

    Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career."

  • VIrginia Secedes

    VIrginia Secedes

  • Arkansas Secedes

    Arkansas Secedes

  • Tennessee Secedes

    Tennessee Secedes

  • North Carolina Secedes

    North Carolina Secedes

  • Lincolns Election

    Lincolns Election

  • Civil War Begins; Brother George Enlists

    Civil War Begins; Brother George Enlists

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    Attack on Fort Sumter

  • Formation of the Confederate States of America

    Formation of the Confederate States of America

  • Battle of Bull Run

    Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

  • Battle of Vicksburg

    Battle of Vicksburg

  • Moves to Washington DC

    Moves to Washington DC

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg

  • Gettysburg Address

    Gettysburg Address

  • Lincoln Reelected

    Lincoln Reelected

  • Fall of the Confederacy

    Fall of the Confederacy

  • Attends Lincoln's Second Inauguration

    Attends Lincoln's Second Inauguration

  • Appomattox

    Appomattox

  • Lincoln Assasinated

    Lincoln Assasinated

  • Publishes Drum Taps

    Publishes Drum Taps

  • Writes Will

    Writes Will

  • Suffers Paralytic Stroke

    Suffers Paralytic Stroke

  • Moves to Camden, NJ

    Moves to Camden, NJ

  • Gives First Lincoln Speech

    Gives First Lincoln Speech

  • Travels West as far as CO, then stays with brother in St. Louis

    Travels West as far as CO, then stays with brother in St. Louis

  • Suffers another stroke, and rewrites will.

    Suffers another stroke, and rewrites will.

  • Dies at Mickle Street

    Dies at Mickle Street