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

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.

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

indicates an indictment of Longfellow, who had continued to write sentimental verse while Whitman was nursing

wounded men bound for the hospitals in Washington, D.C., where he took up residence and continued to nurse

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

Baker, Whitman's nurse for two years and a witness to Whitman's will of 29 June 1888.

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

was introduced in the Congress to give Whitman a twenty-five-dollar a month pension for his work nursing

in a visit he made to Brooklyn shortly before his brother's death, but he was back in Washington nursing

about Whitman, stating, "I am sorry to hear of the physical disabilities of the man who tenderly nursed

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

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.

The two men met early in 1863 while Whitman was nursing Sawyer's friend Lewy Brown, and soon Whitman

we can—most likely profit by them—As I sit here alone, in my big old 2d story room "den," my young nurse

my own hand—propp'd up in bed, deadly weak yet but the spark seems to glimmer yet —the doctors & nurses

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

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

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

Although he attributed the collapse of his health to prolonged exposure to viruses and diseases while nursing

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

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

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

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

Walt Whitman's war ministry in the capital's hospitals followed upon his nursing of brother George on

Joann P.KriegFritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)Fritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)Whitman's 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.

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

Leaders of the Civil War," for which he asked Whitman to write a piece about his work as a volunteer nurse

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

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

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. 

tonic for the war-weary Whitman, who had spent the previous two years in Washington's army hospitals nursing

war poems.The text evokes a small, wartime scene of the sort which Whitman, in his capacity as a nurse's

Whitman discovers a way to give eternal meaning to that slaughter of young men, many of whom he had nursed

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

forlorn Whitman, one reduced to a few short lines written at brief intervals as he continues his labors nursing

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

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

more help with daily tasks, and from the mid-1880s, Traubel played many roles in Whitman's life—from nurse

(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