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MN90: With Whitman in Washington, D.C.

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In the Minneapolis of 1905, Byron Sutherland was an attorney planning to retire to a farm in Virginia. But in the Washington, D.C. of the Civil War, he was one of the soldiers who called Walt Whitman friend. Britt Aamodt has the story of the soldier and the poet.