Updated September 23, 2019 | Infoplease Staff This Dust Was Once the ManThis dust was once the man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand, Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, Was saved the Union of these States. Walt Whitman: Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865] Walt Whitman: Memories of President Lincoln Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Book XXIII .com/t/lit/leaves-of-grass/ch22s04.html Sources Our Common Sources
