# Old Salt Kossabone — Leaves of Grass character guide

> Old Salt Kossabone in Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Old Salt

**First appearance:** 0654-orange-buds-by-mail-from-florida

## Who they are

An aged sailor character in a late poem about memory and the sea.

## Links

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