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Complete Prose Works

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

Some of the nurses are excellent. The woman-nurse in this ward I like very much. (Mrs.

by the lady-nurses of other wards.

Each has its ward surgeon and corps of nurses.

FEMALE NURSES FOR SOLDIERS.

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

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

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

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1891)

  • 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

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: 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

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: 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: Drum-Taps. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

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

Civil War Washington, the Walt Whitman Archive, and Some Present Editorial Challenges and Future Possibilities

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
Text:

hospitals compare to those of Harriet Jacobs, Louisa May Alcott, Abraham Lincoln, and now little-known nurses

Civil War Nursing

  • Creator(s): Davis, Robert Leigh
Text:

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

City, Whitman and the

  • Creator(s): Bauerlein, Mark
Text:

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

City Photographs—No. IV

  • Date: 12 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As I saw the case, and heard from the nurse's lips also, it was pitiful to see the agony the poor fellow

Mack, the nurse; and often and often have the soldiers mentioned her, and shown me something she has

City Photographs

  • Date: 22 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

THE NURSES. Some of the nurses are real characters, and favorable specimens, at that.

Jackson, who has been a nurse here for thirty years.

I saw another nurse among the soldiers in the North Building, Mrs.

sketch of that establishment could be fair unless it put in a word about Aunty Robinson, a colored nurse

creature has all the appearance of one of the most favorable samples of the Southern mammy , or house nurse

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, June 1867

  • Date: June 1867
  • Creator(s): Charles Hyde | Charles Heyde
Text:

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

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, [20 December 1884]

  • Date: December 20, 1884
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

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

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1891

  • Date: August 2, 1891
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

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

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

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

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.

Camden’s Compliment to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

together up-stairsby two capable policemen, were wheeled into the hall.Whitman's Canadian friend and nurse

His best yearshad been devoted to the sacred duty of nursing thesick and wounded soldiers in the army

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

Burroughs, John [1837–1921] and Ursula [1836–1917]

  • Creator(s): Sarracino, Carmine
Text:

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

Biography of John Burroughs

  • Creator(s): Carmine Sarracino
Text:

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

Beatrice Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 12 August 1878

  • Date: August 12, 1878
  • Creator(s): Beatrice Gilchrist
Text:

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.

Attorney General's Office, United States

  • Creator(s): Graham, Rosemary
Text:

He boasted to one of his younger correspondents, a soldier he had nursed during the war years, that he

Ashton, J. Hubley (1836–1907)

  • Creator(s): Bawcom, Amy M.
Text:

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

"Ashes of Soldiers" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Rieke, Susan
Text:

resurrection and immortality.In this interpretation, Whitman mourns naturally the loss of those he knew and nursed

Arnold and Whitman: The Author of "Light of Asia" Visits the American Poet

  • Date: 15 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1881

  • Date: February 16, 1881
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

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

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
Text:

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.

Anderson, Sherwood (1876–1941)

  • Creator(s): Bidney, Martin
Text:

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

American Feuillage.

  • Date: 1871
  • 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

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

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

All About Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Tuggle, Lindsay
Text:

Mitchell paid fifteen dollars per month for the next two years to help cover the nursing costs.

Sawyer, a soldier he nursed at Armory Square Hospital.

Whitman was forty-two years old when he went into camp and hospital to nurse soldiers.

Hsu, “Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse,” 238. 174.

“Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse Who Witnessed the Advent of Modern American Medicine.”

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

“This Mighty Convlusion”: Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War

  • Date: 2019
  • Creator(s): Sten, Christopher | Hoffman, Tyler
Text:

Immediately after, he moved to Washington, where he took on the role of a volunteer day nurse, visiting

The speaker then describes “The women volunteering for nurses—the work begun for, in earnest—no mere

So for the next three years, he volunteered his services as a nurse, swapping out ban dages, comforting

time-space oftherecruitmentpoems(“Drum-Taps,”“FirstOSongsforaPrelude”) and in thevivid memories ofaged nurses

in the structure of historical time, we gaze at the stars.Or wewait, or we march.Or we see Whitman nursing

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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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