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...paper business. His parents moved away when Whitman was 14, and they left him at the newspaper business, where he learned the trade. By the time he was sixteen, Walt was a journeyman printer and compositor in New York City. Fires in the printing district leave Whitman jobless, so he takes a job as a teacher. Whitman bounces back and forth between teaching and printing and also has a few bits of fiction published, but nothing that causes a stir. Franklin Evans is written by Whitman and sells a good amount of copies, although it was not his best work. During the spring of 1855, at his own expense, Walt Whitman published the first edition of poems, named Leaves of Grass. It was 12 untitled poems, written in free innovative free verse. The American population wasn’t too impressed by it, but one man was. Ralph Waldo Emerson hailed it and welcomed Whitman at the start of a significant career. History says that the best poem in the Leaves of Grass, was “Song of Myself.” Throughout his life, Whitman revised and released updated versions of Leaves of Grass. Nine revisions of Leaves of Grass took place throughout his life and in each revision, more poems were added and some of the older ones were revised. The civil war occurs, and Whitman’s brother George enlists in the Union Army. Whitman visits hospitals and see dead bodies that haunt him till the end of his days. He decides he will go to Washington D.C. and he stays there. There he wr...