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provide context for poems drafted at the time, many of which were inspired by wounded soldiers Whitman nursed
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.
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."
in hospitals becoming words, occasionally literally stained by the blood of the young men he was 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
hospitals compare to those of Harriet Jacobs, Louisa May Alcott, Abraham Lincoln, and now little-known nurses
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
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