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Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition Law Enforcement some gay men can repositionWalt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published Drum Taps, his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book came out in an expanded form, including "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," Whitman's passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving and enduring poetry to emerge from America's most tragic conflict, Drum Taps also helped to create a new, modern poetry of war, a poetry not just of