Fine Specimens

David S. Reynolds reviews "The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War" by Lindsay Tuggle and "Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition" by Walt Whitman, edited by Lawrence Kramer.
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