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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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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.

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

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

I called the doctor's atttention to him, shook up the nurses, had him bathed in spirits, gave him lumps

On the way back, he stopped at Sterling, Kansas, to visit a Civil War veteran whom he had nursed in a

His friends came to his aid and furnished the services of a male nurse so that, after a fashion, he was

His first nurse was a medical student, Eddie Wilkins; he was succeeded by Frank Warren Fritzinger, a

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

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

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

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

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

whose son died in hospital:— Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requisite in surgical treatment, nursing

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

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

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

W. man of the woods, nurse, friend, journalist, paralytic…..Poet?

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.”

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

shorter poems in the "Sea-Drift" section of Leaves of Grass, the sea is personified as an old mother or nurse

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

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

identity, from the young New York reporter/flâneur to the working class rough to the careworn Civil War nurse

the violet: / Humility is the fair-haired maid, that calleth Worth her brother, / the gentle silent nurse

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

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

in hospitals becoming words, occasionally literally stained by the blood of the young men he was nursing

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

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