Please help Read this line from "O Captain! My Captain!". The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;

What does “the prize we sought is won” refer to?

They won a game.

They found a lost treasure.

They won an election.

The North has won the Civil War.

This dust was once the manthis dust was once the man,gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,was saved the union of these states walt whitman who is "the man" the dust now represents? the narrator a criminal whitman lincoln