Download or read book Now the Drum of War written by Robert Roper and published by Walker Books. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the searing letters that Walt Whitman, his brother George, their mother Louisa, and their other brothers wrote to each other during the Civil War, this work chronicles the experience of an archetypal American family enduring its own long crisis alongside the anguish of the nation.