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Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

American Feuillage

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

To One Shortly to Die

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Our Old Feuillage.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

Song of the Exposition.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Song for All Seas, All Ships.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

To One Shortly to Die

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

First O Songs for a Prelude.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

To One Shortly to Die.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

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

Cluster: Chants Democratic and Native American. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

Cluster: Messenger Leaves. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Chants Democratic

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Our Old Feuillage.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

Song of the Exposition.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Song for All Seas, All Ships.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

First O Songs for a Prelude.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

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

To One Shortly to Die.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

He became a bookseller, worked as a nurse's assistant, then studied medicine in Leipzig, where he specialized

From the spring of 1863 onward, this nursing in the field, and in the hospitals at Washington, was his

At the end of the war, it is said, he must have nursed with his own hands more than 100,000 sick and

In the 60s, just after the had appeared, he spent the Civil War on the battlefield and worked as a nurse

Walt came to the field hospital and took part in the war as nurse or actually more as comforter and,

"walter dear": The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt

  • Creator(s): Wesley Raabe
Text:

(December 1862) precipitated Walt's departure to the Washington, D.C., area and ultimately to his nursing

The former depicts a setting with one soldier nursing his dying companion that could almost accompany

description of the possible house—she expressed her appreciation for the two devoted companions who were nursing

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

Other notebooks contain notes Whitman made while working as a nurse in Civil War hospitals in Washington

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 Carpenter

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

"Nursing the Union soldiers?" "Union and rebel," was the answer.

I nursed him in the hospital."

Our good friend here nursed us both, like our own mother.

times of marriage, the cradle by the fire-lit hearth, the infant's dimpled hand caressing the white nursing

"I nursed them both together in the hospital," he resumed, in a gentler strain.

The Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1866 (republished 1883)
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

He has been a visitor of prisons, a protector of fugitive slaves, a constant voluntary nurse, night and

one of those pretty and good girls, who in muslin and ribbons ornament the wards, and are called "nurses

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

which is the chief literary glory of our country in the capitals of Europe—the book of the good gray nurse

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 28 June 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 25 December 1888

  • Date: December 25, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

you & your hospital work, & realized for the first time the awful strain it must have been on you nurses

And give my regards to your Canadian nurse-friend.

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman: Memories, Letters, Etc.

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

referring to his nurse, "Warry," as his sailor boy, he said that he had been of great service to him

Davis, and the nurses.

About twenty minutes before his death he whispered to his nurse, "Warry, shift," the pain in his side

The Fight of a Book for the World

  • Date: 1926
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Walt said that Lowell, on his sick-bed, was bothered with nurses and doctors, and had said,"Can't you

Elizabeth Leavitt Keller was Whitman's last nurse, and is a writer about him.

words that he was led to disbelieve in Walt's kind-heartedness (think of that in the case of a war nurse

I giveto Warren Fritzinger (my nurse) $200. I order and direct that Mary O.

Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (nurse), Longfellow and Whitman, false articlein Putnam's by, 99. story about

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Davis, and the nurses.

About twenty minutes before his death he whispered to his nurse, " Warry, shift,''he pain in hisside

Wilkins days ETC. 01 MEMORIES, LETTERS, has my young Kanuck, my nurse and helper Dr.

Horace [Traubel] and my nurse Ed. have gone prospecting to Phila :for a suitableout-door chairfor me

My ypung nurse isdown stairslearning his fiddle lesson. Sun shining out to-day. '90.

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: Thursday, October 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Summers, M. P.
Text:

I went first of all from Brooklyn to Washington to nurse some of my friends.

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
Text:

was seen being embraced by “the negro cook,” who had come out to greet the poet because Whitman had nursed

surprising, since Whitman witnessed the effects of mangled and brutalized bodies firsthand when he nursed

'Song of the Exposition' [1871]

  • Creator(s): Wolfe, Karen
Text:

Section seven is one of the better sections, in which Whitman's years spent nursing wounded Civil War

[While I so deeply loved]

  • Date: 1864
Text:

1864poetryprose1 leafhandwritten; This is a manuscript with poem notes relating to Whitman's experience as a nurse

51st New York Veterans

  • Date: 1864
Text:

The notes on female nurses during the war were used in Female Nurses for Soldiers, first published under

the heading, A Few Words about Female Nurses for Soldiers, in The Soldiers, New-York Times (6 March

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Text:

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. 

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