as i became more and more interested i began to try to figure out who edmund whitman was. it turns out he went to harvard. he graduated in 1838. he was a schoolteacher and was an abolitionist. he migrated to kansas to combat slavery in kansas when the state of kansas was in question. he was closely in line with john brown and then he became a quartermaster at the outset of the war back. he regarded his administrations as a fulfillment of an obligation to those who fall on behalf for which he had struggled for so long. edmund whitman was a survivor of the war, but his life was indelibly shaped by his experience. the writer and soldier said that after the war he saw pennsylvania sentenced to life. looking back on the war from the confederacy said that for most of his generation in the south, lights and the war was as he described it pretty much the whole of life has been not dying. we are all civil war survivors because we all inherited its legacy. i would like to close by reading the two final paragraphs of the book which i think make this point about why we are not all the