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Robert LeighDavisCivil War NursingCivil War NursingMilitary nursing in 1861 was a brutal and haphazard

women for an army nursing corps.

Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987. 

"The War Within a War: Women Nurses in the Union Army." Civil War History 18 (1972): 197-212. 

Civil War Nursing

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

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.

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.

Claiming that he is "more than nurse," "more than parent or neighbor," Whitman approaches the reader,

nature of physical existence, a theme he was about to experience in all of its loathsome reality as he nursed

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

be found in these random and fugitive papers, some of them recording his experiences as a hospital nurse

Joann P.KriegFritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)Fritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)Whitman's nurse

about Whitman, stating, "I am sorry to hear of the physical disabilities of the man who tenderly nursed

served as matron of Sing Sing prison for four years (1844–1848), worked at the Perkins Institution, nursed

this job enabled Whitman to write his poetry and, at the same time, perform his ministrations as a nurse

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.

Reefy, "[l]ike Walt Whitman," was a nurse in the Civil War (330).

was introduced in the Congress to give Whitman a twenty-five-dollar a month pension for his work nursing

war poems.The text evokes a small, wartime scene of the sort which Whitman, in his capacity as a nurse's

Lines 5–11 suggest Whitman's service as a nurse during the Civil War and echo passages from Drum-Taps

Baker, Whitman's nurse for two years and a witness to Whitman's will of 29 June 1888.

Leaders of the Civil War," for which he asked Whitman to write a piece about his work as a volunteer nurse

resurrection and immortality.In this interpretation, Whitman mourns naturally the loss of those he knew and nursed

wounded men bound for the hospitals in Washington, D.C., where he took up residence and continued to nurse

in a visit he made to Brooklyn shortly before his brother's death, but he was back in Washington nursing

The two men met early in 1863 while Whitman was nursing Sawyer's friend Lewy Brown, and soon Whitman

forlorn Whitman, one reduced to a few short lines written at brief intervals as he continues his labors nursing

indicates an indictment of Longfellow, who had continued to write sentimental verse while Whitman was nursing

Whitman discovers a way to give eternal meaning to that slaughter of young men, many of whom he had nursed

He boasted to one of his younger correspondents, a soldier he had nursed during the war years, that he

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.

winter of '63 and '64 recur very vividly to memory; his meeting soldiers on the street whom he had nursed

Walt Whitman's war ministry in the capital's hospitals followed upon his nursing of brother George on

of the American people—in a Massachusetts soldier returning from Andersonville, in an Armory Square nurse

was his occupation until the outbreak of the great civil war in 1862, when he undertook the duty of nursing

As a hospital nurse, Whitman proved the nobleness of his nature by his untiring devotion to the sick

Section seven is one of the better sections, in which Whitman's years spent nursing wounded Civil War

tonic for the war-weary Whitman, who had spent the previous two years in Washington's army hospitals nursing

Robert Leigh Davis Civil War Nursing Military nursing in 1861 was a brutal and haphazard affair.

In addition, Dorothea Dix was appointed "Superintendent of Female Nurses" and charged with recruiting

women for an army nursing corps.

Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945 . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987. 

"The War Within a War: Women Nurses in the Union Army." Civil War History 18 (1972): 197-212. 

Nursing the horribly wounded was as repugnant to Burroughs as handling mangled corpses, and he soon left

argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

His three years nursing in the Washington hospitals were surely heroic in humanitarian terms.

Although he attributed the collapse of his health to prolonged exposure to viruses and diseases while nursing

Not to be omitted are Whitman's accounts of his days spent nursing the wounded and dying Civil War soldiers

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."

Let him who can do so, shroud the eyes of the nursing babe lest it should see its mother's breast.

Whitman might have spent the remainder of his days in the Federal District.Drawn initially to D.C. to nurse

pioneer in the backwoods, a tramway conductor in New York, a soldier in the great civil war, a hospital nurse

One imagines that burly tenderness of the man who went to supply the "——lack of woman's nursing" that

States and principal cities, North and South—went to the front (moving about and occupied as army nurse

He has tenderly cared for the wounded, nursed the sick, consoled the dying and buried the dead.

Whitman did good service as nurse and attendant in those trying days, and relates scores of pathetic

Journal on two cassettes (Audio Scholar), a spoken word Whitman autobiography describing his life as nurse

During his life he has worked as printer, carpenter, school-teacher, army-nurse, and clerk in the office

He stayed in Washington during and after the Civil War, serving first as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals