Starring Rene Auberjonois, Lois Nettleton, Anne Rogers, Richard Erdman, Thomas MacGreevy, Roger Perry, William Windom, and John Harlan.
 The little known story of Walt Whitman and his first love, a beautiful creole girl in New Orleans. From this relationship, Whitman matured as a poet, reflecting upon his devotion to his country and the tenor of the time of Lincoln's assassination.