“In fantasy unreal, the skirmishers begin,” Walt Whitman states in “The Artilleryman’s Vision.” Walt Whitman is describing what happened during the Civil War. He described it like “suffocating smoke,” and, “warning s-s-t of the rifles. In “The Artilleryman’s Vision”, Walt Whitman uses imagery and tone to make it feel like you are living the war. Whitman starts the poem with the narrator in his room with his wife and his infant. The narrator starts to have the vision when he wakes up. The narrator had a vision about the war, where he heard the gunshots and saw the people falling dead. The vision wasn’t a vision but a memory. Walt Whitman describes the Civil War as a loud, hard time of his life by saying, “I breathe the suffocating