How did Walt Whitman travel back to New York from New Orleans?

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“Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos” — Walt Whitman American poet Walt Whitman, photograph by Mathew Brady.

After working for three months at the Crescent in New Orleans, Walt Whitman returned to New York by traveling via the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.1