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

Later, on a day trip with Douglas, Paschal, her son, and the slave Sophy who was his nurse, Douglas presented

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

There are two good women nurses, one on each side.

One of the nurses constantly fanshim,foritisfearfullyhot.Heaskstoberais’dup,andtheyputhiminahalf- sitting

Warren Fritzinger, WW’s male nurse. 2.

butwithnormalmentalityandgoodright-armpower.Heyetlivesinhiscottage,withhousekeeper 108 T H E C O L L E C T E D W R I T I N G S O F WA L T W H I T M A N and nurse

Whitman on the Camden wharf with Warren Fritzinger, who was his nurse and companion during the last three

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

the years after the war, many successful reminiscences of Civil War hospitals, written mostly by nurses

aware that there was a market for such books, but his, of course, would be something different from a nursing

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.

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

heregardedfarmersin the rural areas and workers in the coal pits, respectively, as the nurses of humanity

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.

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

Indeed, it is difficult to imagine the war nurse who moved to Washington and threw himself into his work

On Whitman’s years in Washington and his role as a “nurse,” see, for example, Peter Coviello’s introduction

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

journalist, and, most significantly, as onewho had seen so much of the misery of the war while serving as a nurse

Mr.Gilder’s request I write to ask if you would not write us a short, comprehensive paper on Hospital Nursing

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was in charge of nursing in the military hospitals at Scutari, Turkey

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

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

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

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

lastbreathsothattheirdeadwillcontinuetobehuman—notjustchunksofmeat, but bodies that are cherished, nursed

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfullywelcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

Miss But ton [Whitman's next-door neighbor] told an anecdote ofWhitman, when an army nurse in Washington

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

Whitman's activi ties as a nurse during the Civil War were described as an apostolate.

Whitman was a rough-hewn giant, but it seems that as a nurse to the sick who were closest to death, he

At the end of the war, it is said, he must have nursed with his own hands more than 100,000 sick and

6os, just after thLeaves had ap peared, he spent the Civil War on the battlefield and worked as a nurse

Walt came to the field hospital and tookpart in the war as nurse or actually more as comforter and, he

Marsh finds redemption for his guilty soul by nursing cholera victims in the "dirtiest and wretchedest

abandonments;' but in 1862, on the breaking out of the Civil War, he undertook the (gratuitous) service of nursing

where for the next ten years (punctuated by trips back to Brooklyn) he lived and worked as volunteer nurse

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.

thesearticlessupportedasocialist-humanitarianand pacifistreadingofWhitman,andtheyshowedacontinuingadmirationfor the poet’s nursing

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

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

In the conservatives’ most extreme warnings, the benighted citizen nurses his parochial and selfish hatreds

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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