Charles Wood was a composer who trained under Stanford, who has been mentioned above. Wood's output is not prolific but he achieved some distinction in different genres, like sacred vocal music.

The peerless Lieder accompanist Gerald Moore, in one of his several books, singled out a Charles Wood setting of Ethiopia Saluting the Colors, by Walt Whitman. The poem is highly dramatic, with Sherman's March underway by the Union forces. The incident described is where there were slaves; and "Ethiopia" is represented by a woman wearing a turban of red, yellow, and green, who makes a point of coming outdoors, even though she is ancient and frail, to see the liberating forces march by: she describes how she was abducted from Africa by slavers as a small child.

I don't know if the composer Wood set any other Whitman poems.