The Year This Poem Was Written?

Question

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

Please include a website for proof

ALSO that dates Thaddeus Stevens was in congress

PLEASE

Answer 1

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) wrote this dirge for the death of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr...

Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792–1868, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1849–53, 1859–68) - two terms:

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08...

In 1856, Stevens was reelected to Congress as a member of the new antislavery Republican party.

http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11b...