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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

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

The memorandum on "The Schools for Nurses" in London (1908).

To allow Hispanic communities to be invaded like this, nursed as they are "on the difficult facility

El Memorándum acerca de “Las Escuelas de Nurses” en Londres (1908).

The child must have had a memory to remember her firstlesso— that of toddling from mother to nurse !

Babington, head the nurse, and we have also of Lying-in Hospital, so I feel sure all isbeing done for

That nurse, from allmy girlssay of her,seems tobe a most anxious painstaking woman.

— The nurse thinks that by next week Anne willbe quite up to her work. ...

Pray ask your 'nurse' and your 'sunshine' toaccept my love.

Dear Giddy has been such an indefatigable & capital nurse & housekeeper!

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

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

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

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

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

Whitman did good service as nurse and attendant in those trying days, and relates scores of pathetic

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

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

to be wheeled out in the sunlight in his little coach, propelled by the strong arms of his Canadian nurse

the thickest of that time and amid all its turmoils and suspense, night and day with his own hands nursing

In 1862 he went to the war, and it was while acting as nurse of the wounded soldiers that he gained the

department by Secretary Harlan and gained him the friendship of Tennyson, and of the days when its author nursed

A trained female nurse, he said, took care of Mr.

He came out of the war poor, after having nearly exhausted his vitality in nursing soldiers in the hospitals

Nature supplied the place of a bride, with suffering to be nursed and scenes to be poetically clothed

Ushered into the snug little parlor, the visitor noted the retreating foot falls of the nurse as she

on the go night and day, personally ministering to hundreds and thousands, healing the wounded and nursing

But as soon as war was declared, Whitman threw up all other appointments and went in to serve as a nurse

He nursed over a hundred thousand men with his own hands, for five years he had not more than two nights

Baker to nurse him.

The nurse found his position something of a sinecure, for his patient would have none of him and it was

his bed room, as he completed his toilet, by stamping his foot in it was the first intimation the nurse

If Niebuhr, with all his extravagant admiration of the wolf-nursed race, felt himself bound thus to speak

Spring, with your crown of roses budding news, Thought-nursing and most melancholy fall, Summer, with

Let him who can do so shroud the eyes of the nursing babe lest it should see its mother's breast. . .

I called the doctor's atttention to him, shook up the nurses, had him bathed in spirits, gave him lumps

On the way back, he stopped at Sterling, Kansas, to visit a Civil War veteran whom he had nursed in a

His friends came to his aid and furnished the services of a male nurse so that, after a fashion, he was

His first nurse was a medical student, Eddie Wilkins; he was succeeded by Frank Warren Fritzinger, a

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

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

His three years nursing in the Washington hospitals were surely heroic in humanitarian terms.

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

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

this job enabled Whitman to write his poetry and, at the same time, perform his ministrations as a nurse

Berlin), all the students, & superintendent of nurses.

If one's patient has an ache or pain, the nurse whistles for the student (my whistle is 2).

The number of visits depending on the need & the competency of the nurse.

aged black woman is “hardly human” and is desexualized like other aged black women he approved of as nurses

definite plans at that time, or for long afterwards; but attention to the Brooklyn friends led to nursing

(ww, 35) Bucke’s account depicts a family crisis as instigating Whitman’s wartime nursing.

Burroughs’s account of Whitman’s Civil War nursing is even more extravagant.

247, 249 movement, 307; and Calhoun, Civil War, 261, 364 76; and democracy, 42–46; and Civil War nursing

thesearticlessupportedasocialist-humanitarianand pacifistreadingofWhitman,andtheyshowedacontinuingadmirationfor the poet’s nursing

Reefy, "[l]ike Walt Whitman," was a nurse in the Civil War (330).

lastbreathsothattheirdeadwillcontinuetobehuman—notjustchunksofmeat, but bodies that are cherished, nursed

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

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

Nursing the horribly wounded was as repugnant to Burroughs as handling mangled corpses, and he soon left

served as matron of Sing Sing prison for four years (1844–1848), worked at the Perkins Institution, nursed

I have nursed her in sickness, made every thing as agreeable and convenient as possible for her household

institution however is a place that many have preferred to be taken to, in sickness: where perfect trained nurses

I have nursed Han though many very bad, very hard physical disorders, typhoid, Erysipilas Erysipelas

I obtained a nurse, for my time was occupied in procuring remedies—all day—until allmost almost night

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

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

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

Jeff's wife, Mattie, attempted to be a peacemaker: she offered to nurse George if he should return home