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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

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.

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

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 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