What local man haunts a southern New Jersey bridge

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What local man haunts a southern New Jersey
bridge?
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C.S.I. Case 05311819
Case Background
This man was born just thirty years after George
Washington was inaugurated as the first President
of the United States of America. He was born in
Long Island, New York. During his childhood, he
witnessed slavery on his own mothers farm. He
witnessed the growth of a nation during very
tumultuous times. Our ghost is best known as a
poet who wrote many poems about the growth of
America, the expansion of the railroad and the
Civil War. He combined his own emotions with the
vivid images of American life.
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During the Civil War, when his brother was
wounded at Fredericksburg, he went there to care
for him and also for other Union and Confederate
soldiers. The Civil War had a great effect on the
writer. He wrote to ensure that the public would
remember the pain and sorrow of war. One of his
famous poems was written about the death of
Abraham Lincoln it is 'O Captain! My Captain!'.
He had great admiration and was a supporter of
President Lincoln.
"Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with
mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead." (from 'O Captain, My
Captain')
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As a poet, WW did not have a steady income. His
poetry would either be accepted by the masses or
banned by others. The public was not always ready
to hear his outspoken words. WW struggled to
support himself through most of his life. He
spent any excess money, including gifts from
friends, to buy supplies for the Civil War
patients he nursed. He had also been sending
money to his widowed mother and an invalid
brother.
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In the early 1870s, WW settled in Camden, where
he had come to visit his dying mother at his
brother's house. However, after suffering a
stroke, he decided to stay in Camden. He stayed
with his brother until the 1882 publication of
Leaves of Grass gave he enough money to buy a
modest home in Camden. Here he spent his
declining years working on additions and
revisions to his final book, Good-Bye, My Fancy
(1891). He died on March 26, 1892, and was buried
in a tomb he designed and had built on a lot in
Harleigh Cemetery.
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Our ghost is Walt Whitman, famous American poet.