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Alonzo S. Bush to Walt Whitman, 22 December 1863

  • Date: December 22, 1863
  • Creator(s): Alonzo S. Bush
Text:

I want you to give my best wishes to the Lady Nurse of Ward K also to W[ard] M[aster] Cate, Brown, Billy

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 15 November 1863

  • Date: November 15, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My sister Martha is untiring, feeding & nursing him.

Lewis K. Brown to Walt Whitman, 13–14 November 1863

  • Date: November 13–14, 1863
  • Creator(s): Lewis K. Brown
Text:

do quite with it as you told me. that is I did not take it to each one, but I took it to the lady nurse

Walt Whitman to Lewis K. Brown, 8–9 November 1863

  • Date: November 8–9, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

If Miss Hill in ward F or the lady nurse in ward E cares about reading it to the boys in those wards

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 22 October 1863

  • Date: October 22, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

His disease of course makes Andrew fretful and discouraged, and instead of soothing and nursing him Nancy

Caleb H. Babbitt to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1863

  • Date: October 18, 1863
  • Creator(s): Caleb H. Babbitt
Text:

both dark Walt—I have been verry low since I have been at home, and all that has saved me is good nursing

I must tell you who I have had to cheer and nurse me, besides my parents and sisters: is a young Lady

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 13 October 1863

  • Date: October 13, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

dirty & torn, & many pale as ashes, & all bloody—I distributed all my stores, gave partly to the nurses

Walt Whitman to Abby H. Price, 11–15 October, 1863

  • Date: October 11–15, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

You wrote about Emma, her thinking she might & ought to come as nurse for the soldiers—dear girl, I know

Walt Whitman to Margaret S. Curtis, 4 October 1863

  • Date: October 4, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.—& a great staff of surgeons, cadets, women & men nurses &c &c.

musquito curtains—all is quite still—an occasional sigh or groan—up in the middle of the ward the lady nurse

From Washington

  • Date: 22 September 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The routine demanded at these huge hospitals from the duties of surgeon, nurse, &c., is generally fulfilled

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 18 September 1863

  • Date: September 18, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

One of the nurses constantly fans him, for it is fearfully hot.

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 5 September 1863

  • Date: September 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

let him have one of her rooms upstairs for him to sleep in and I intended to see if he could not be nursed

Washington in the Hot Season

  • Date: 16 August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The principal singer was a young lady nurse of one of the wards, accompanying on a melodeon, and joined

by the lady nurses of other wards.

standing up a little behind them were some ten or fifteen of the convalescent soldiers, young men, nurses

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 30 June 1863

  • Date: June 30, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

something like I found John Holmes last winter—I called the doctor's attention to him, shook up the nurses

without fail, & often at night—sometimes stay very late—no one interferes with me, guards, doctors, nurses

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 13 May 1863

  • Date: May 13, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

him—Mother, such things are awful—not a soul here he knew or cared about, except me—yet the surgeons & nurses

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 5 May 1863

  • Date: May 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): James Redpath
Text:

reproductive organs, and, somehow, it wd seem to be the result of their logic—that eunuchs only are fit for nurses

Will W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 5 April 1863

  • Date: April 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): Will W. Wallace
Text:

I have five young ladies who act in the capacity of nurses—i e, one of them is French , young and beautiful

The Great Washington Hospitals

  • Date: 19 March 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of good jelly; I carry a good sized jar to a ward, have it opened, get a spoon, and taking the head nurse

C of that regiment, Isaac Snyder; he is now acting as nurse there, and makes a very good one.

the other hospitals I met with general cordiality and deference among the doctors, ward officers, nurses

Of course there are exceptions of good officials here, and some of the women nurses are excellent, but

surgeons in charge of many of the hospitals, and often the ward surgeons, medical cadets, and head nurses

The Great Army of the Sick

  • Date: 26 February 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Each ward has a Ward-master, and generally a nurse for every ten or twelve men.

Some of the wards have a woman nurse—the Armory-square wards have some very good ones.

The nurse from Ward E to whom Whitman refers may be Amanda Akin Stearns, whose memoir of her time as

a nurse in Armory Square General Hospital is titled, The Lady Nurse of Ward E .

that could not be repressed—sometimes a poor fellow dying, with emaciated face and glassy eye, the nurse

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