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"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 10 May 1856
  • Creator(s): Fern, Fanny
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Let him who can do so, shroud the eyes of the nursing babe lest it should see its mother's breast.

Drum-Taps

  • Date: 11 November 1865
  • Creator(s): Howells, William Dean
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One imagines that burly tenderness of the man who went to supply the "——lack of woman's nursing" that

Review of Drum-Taps

  • Date: 24 February 1866
  • Creator(s): Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin
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He has tenderly cared for the wounded, nursed the sick, consoled the dying and buried the dead.

Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps

  • Date: March 1866
  • Creator(s): B.
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winter of '63 and '64 recur very vividly to memory; his meeting soldiers on the street whom he had nursed

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was in charge of nursing in the military hospitals at Scutari, Turkey

Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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abandonments;' but in 1862, on the breaking out of the Civil War, he undertook the (gratuitous) service of nursing

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

  • Date: November 1869
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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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

The Gospel of Walt Whitman

  • Date: October 1878
  • Creator(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis
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whose son died in hospital:— Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requisite in surgical treatment, nursing

Walt Whitman's Claim to Be Considered a Great Poet

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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During his life he has worked as printer, carpenter, school-teacher, army-nurse, and clerk in the office

Review of Leaves of Grass (1881–82)

  • Date: 21 March 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: 14 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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be found in these random and fugitive papers, some of them recording his experiences as a hospital nurse

All About Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Whitman did good service as nurse and attendant in those trying days, and relates scores of pathetic

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
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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

Walt Whitman's Good-Bye

  • Date: 12 December 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

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