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Section seven is one of the better sections, in which Whitman's years spent nursing wounded Civil War
was seen being embraced by “the negro cook,” who had come out to greet the poet because Whitman had nursed
surprising, since Whitman witnessed the effects of mangled and brutalized bodies firsthand when he nursed
Indeed, it is difficult to imagine the war nurse who moved to Washington and threw himself into his work
Patricia J.TyrerKeller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839)Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839) A professional nurse
, Keller was employed to care for Whitman (1892), along with his personal nurse, Warren Fritzinger, during
Mitchell paid fifteen dollars per month for the next two years to help cover the nursing costs.
Sawyer, a soldier he nursed at Armory Square Hospital.
Whitman was forty-two years old when he went into camp and hospital to nurse soldiers.
Hsu, “Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse,” 238. 174.
“Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse Who Witnessed the Advent of Modern American Medicine.”
whose son died in hospital:— Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requisite in surgical treatment, nursing
Immediately after, he moved to Washington, where he took on the role of a volunteer day nurse, visiting
The speaker then describes “The women volunteering for nurses—the work begun for, in earnest—no mere
So for the next three years, he volunteered his services as a nurse, swapping out ban dages, comforting
time-space oftherecruitmentpoems(“Drum-Taps,”“FirstOSongsforaPrelude”) and in thevivid memories ofaged nurses
in the structure of historical time, we gaze at the stars.Or wewait, or we march.Or we see Whitman nursing
Mary Oakes had a long history of nursing the ill and elderly.
Davis's strongest defender is Whitman's nurse, Elizabeth Leavitt Keller, who portrays Davis as selflessly
War hospital work and to blood poisoning acquired from gangrenous wounds of patients Whitman had nursed
Longaker paid frequent visits and provided various medications, which Whitman's nurse, Elizabeth Leavitt
McAlister, his housekeeper Mary Oakes Davis, nurse Warren Fritzinger, and friends Thomas B.
He does not know how I am paying for the nurse.”
Pessimist: Nurse Keller “He was rather disappointed that the nurse was a woman,” Traubel reported of
He had nursed her husband in the hospital at Washington.”
This was his first specification of what form a nurse should take.
A man to nurse me, not one I must nurse. Oh, that is very essential.”
His devotion as a volunteer nurse in the Civil War needsnorepetition,andhispoetryofthatperiodisanenduringpartofourpa
Let dead hearts tarry, and trade and marry, And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, While we, the
During the War Whitman gave his strength and the health of his future years to nursing his wounded brothers
Nursing the horribly wounded was as repugnant to Burroughs as handling mangled corpses, and he soon left
Although he attributed the collapse of his health to prolonged exposure to viruses and diseases while nursing
He has tenderly cared for the wounded, nursed the sick, consoled the dying and buried the dead.
lastbreathsothattheirdeadwillcontinuetobehuman—notjustchunksofmeat, but bodies that are cherished, nursed
Leaders of the Civil War," for which he asked Whitman to write a piece about his work as a volunteer nurse
wounded men bound for the hospitals in Washington, D.C., where he took up residence and continued to nurse
resurrection and immortality.In this interpretation, Whitman mourns naturally the loss of those he knew and nursed
indicates an indictment of Longfellow, who had continued to write sentimental verse while Whitman was nursing
about Whitman, stating, "I am sorry to hear of the physical disabilities of the man who tenderly nursed
During the Civil War, nursing was not the profession of today.
The Gelman Library, George Washington University Photograph of volunteer nurses.
Photograph of nurse Amanda Akin. Akin tolerated Whitman in person, but just barely.
Perhaps these nurses simply resented Whitman's constant presence in the hospital.
Harper, 1896), 169; Stearns, The Lady Nurse , 246; Whitman, , 1: 329. David S.
aged black woman is “hardly human” and is desexualized like other aged black women he approved of as nurses
definite plans at that time, or for long afterwards; but attention to the Brooklyn friends led to nursing
(ww, 35) Bucke’s account depicts a family crisis as instigating Whitman’s wartime nursing.
Burroughs’s account of Whitman’s Civil War nursing is even more extravagant.
247, 249 movement, 307; and Calhoun, Civil War, 261, 364 76; and democracy, 42–46; and Civil War nursing
precisely the man to organize a regiment on Broadway but selecting the minor & safe function of a nurse
Higginson contrasted Whitman's unmanly devotion to nursing with Sir Philip Sidney's manly exploits as
Col Higginson wanted to know why the noble women nurses of the war sh not receive pensions as well.
Imagine the baseness of a nation allowing, as it did, a man whose health broke down nursing a hundred
Better be a good nurse like Walt Whitman, than a nondescript warrior like the Rev. Col. Higginson."
in hospitals becoming words, occasionally literally stained by the blood of the young men he was nursing
W. man of the woods, nurse, friend, journalist, paralytic…..Poet?
Lines 5–11 suggest Whitman's service as a nurse during the Civil War and echo passages from Drum-Taps
In 1862 he went to the war, and it was while act ing as nurse of the wounded soldiers that he gained
I went first of all from Brooklyn to Washington to nurse some of my friends.
Hourly or oftener he would ring or call the nurse to change his position.
At another time the nurse told him they were thinking of getting a new bed for him.
As he requires constant attendance night and day, we yester day introduced a trained nurse, Mrs.
Whitman might have spent the remainder of his days in the Federal District.Drawn initially to D.C. to nurse
Walt Whitman's war ministry in the capital's hospitals followed upon his nursing of brother George on
in a visit he made to Brooklyn shortly before his brother's death, but he was back in Washington nursing
Likely, it was Oscar Cunningham, the Ohio soldier whom Whitman nursed at Armory Square Hospital.
In the winter of 1862-63, Louisa May Alcott nursed the wounded soldiers there and drew her Hospital Sketches
Nursing Walt On Thursday evening, January 23, 1873, Whitman suffered a stroke while reading in the Attorney
Spelling nursing duties with Ellen O'Connor and Charley Eldridge, Peter Doyle attended Whitman regularly
Pete also became better acquainted with Charles Eldridge and Ellen O'Connor, as the erstwhile nurses
tonic for the war-weary Whitman, who had spent the previous two years in Washington's army hospitals nursing
Although he was nei ther doctor nor nurse, he took care of needs beyond the reach of medicine, and he
called the doctor's attention to him, shook up the nurses, had him bathed in spirits, gave him lumps
Doyle and Eldridge alternated as nurses, attending him day and night.
Davis could provide, there was a procession of male companions or nurses.
Baker, after serving briefly as one of Whitman's nurses, left to complete a medical degree. 66.
alone in the wilds, a marriage that is consummated in a hostile environment, and the lonely I who nurses
as it would have remained otherwise. . . . the physiological Leaves of Grass-the Leaves of Grass nursed
swallowing soul" is metonymic rather than metaphoric, related to our first "experiential knowledge" of nursing
On Whitman’s years in Washington and his role as a “nurse,” see, for example, Peter Coviello’s introduction
war poems.The text evokes a small, wartime scene of the sort which Whitman, in his capacity as a nurse's
When in 1888 Bucke thought that Whitman, an invalid in New Jersey, needed a new nurse, he sent down a
Whitman did like "Ed," so much that when someone re ferred to him as Whitman's nurse, Whitman corrected
the refer ence to read "Whitman's Canadian friend and nurse."
whowritespubliclyacceptable poems ofAmeri can patriotism so dear to the father's heart, Whitman the male nurse
in Whitman's life and work, foremost among them the con tinued failure of his book, his Civil War nursing
His brother having been wounded in an early engagement, he went to the front to nurse him.
Whitman's aim was not to supplant but to suplement the doctors and nurses by giving aid which they had
Baker, Whitman's nurse for two years and a witness to Whitman's will of 29 June 1888.
was writing the piece, Adams says, his father was dying of Alzheimer's disease and his mother was nursing
Once again, as in the Adams work, Whitman's role as nurse is exploited.
Nurses are kept in attendance from this time to his death.
The first of Whitman's male nurses is employed, Nathan M. Baker.
Edward Wilkins becomes Whitman's nurse (nN, 2:476).
Whitman's first nurse, Nathan Baker, graduates from medical school, and Dr.
A hired nurse, Elizabeth L. Keller, begins taking care of Whitman. 1892 1 JANUARY.
Joann P.KriegFritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)Fritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)Whitman's nurse
Marsh finds redemption for his guilty soul by nursing cholera victims in the "dirtiest and wretchedest
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was in charge of nursing in the military hospitals at Scutari, Turkey
The two men met early in 1863 while Whitman was nursing Sawyer's friend Lewy Brown, and soon Whitman
One imagines that burly tenderness of the man who went to supply the "——lack of woman's nursing" that
writes publicly acceptable poems of American patriotism so dear to the father's heart, Whitman the male nurse
in Whitman's life and work, foremost among them the continued failure of his book, his Civil War nursing
was introduced in the Congress to give Whitman a twenty-five-dollar a month pension for his work nursing
The biographer Paul Zweig sees in Whitman's ability to touch and comfort soldiers—Whitman nursed and
perceptively points out that prior to the cataclysm of the Civil War and Whitman's active involvement in nursing
for the poet the dominating metaphor for the war is a hospital, filled with injured men who must be nursed
Its narrator takes on the role of nurse, attendant to the sufferings of injured soldiers.
He then goes on to show-and emphasize-how Whitman entered the Civil War as a volunteerand a nurse.
The image of Whitman as nurse and wound-dresser who, through his mere presence, helped wounded soldiers
The nursing myth has been carried to its greatest extreme: at sundown Whitman was crying(!)
essence pacifist war W HITM AN ON THE RIGHT poetry (supported biographicallythrough his work as a nurse
Whitman's much-praised efforts in nursing wounded soldiers were denounced as the lecherous pursuits ofa