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come out safe , I somehow feel certain Mother is well as usual—defers every thing else, & does the nursing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He then repaired to the city of Washington, and devoted himself to nursing and conversing with the wounded

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

He has tenderly cared for the wounded, nursed the sick, consoled the dying and buried the dead.

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

One imagines that burly tenderness of the man who went to supply the "——lack of woman's nursing" that

I got a good nurse for them, as their nurse had to leave.

Howard's sister Sallie is very sick, I think typhoid fever, & I have been out to-day trying to get a nurse

Rice who is helping nurse the wounded soldiers in Armory Square Hospital.

Alfred has good accommodations where he is, & a good doctor, & nursing—so you must not worry about him

Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requisite in surgical treatment, nursing, &c.

amid strangers, passing away untended there, (for the crowd of the badly hurt was great, and much for nurse

B ILLINGS , Nurse Billings was Rose M.

Billing (no "s"), who served as a nurse from 1861 through the end of 1864.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT FEMALE NURSES FOR SOLDIERS.

W RIGHT , of Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, is one of those good nurses.

There are plenty of excellent clean old black women that would make tip-top nurses.

A thrill run through him and thought he was dying he was in the dark he cald called to one of the nurses

Shillaber's paper, if he were willing to publish it, stating that I am now as a volunteer nurse among

I always confer with the doctor, or find out from the nurse or ward-master, about a new case.

Each has its Ward Surgeon and corps of nurses.

Cleanliness, proper nursing, watching &c., are more deficient than in any hospital I know.

WOMEN NURSES. Middle-aged women and mothers of families are best.

am compelled to say young ladies, however refined, educated and benevolent, do not succeed as army nurses

I should like to have been with you so I could have nursed you back to health & strength, but if you

wish to hear about them—every one is so unfeeling, it has got to be an old story—there is no good nursing—O

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

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

My sister Martha is untiring, feeding & nursing him.

do quite with it as you told me. that is I did not take it to each one, but I took it to the lady nurse

If Miss Hill in ward F or the lady nurse in ward E cares about reading it to the boys in those wards

His disease of course makes Andrew fretful and discouraged, and instead of soothing and nursing him Nancy

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

dirty & torn, & many pale as ashes, & all bloody—I distributed all my stores, gave partly to the nurses

You wrote about Emma, her thinking she might & ought to come as nurse for the soldiers—dear girl, I know

.—& a great staff of surgeons, cadets, women & men nurses &c &c.

musquito curtains—all is quite still—an occasional sigh or groan—up in the middle of the ward the lady nurse

The routine demanded at these huge hospitals from the duties of surgeon, nurse, &c., is generally fulfilled

There are two good women nurses, one on each side.

One of the nurses constantly fans him, for it is fearfully hot.

let him have one of her rooms upstairs for him to sleep in and I intended to see if he could not be nursed

The principal singer was a young lady nurse of one of the wards, accompanying on a melodeon, and joined

by the lady nurses of other wards.

standing up a little behind them were some ten or fifteen of the convalescent soldiers, young men, nurses

something like I found John Holmes last winter—I called the doctor's attention to him, shook up the nurses

without fail, & often at night—sometimes stay very late—no one interferes with me, guards, doctors, nurses

him—Mother, such things are awful—not a soul here he knew or cared about, except me—yet the surgeons & nurses

reproductive organs, and, somehow, it wd seem to be the result of their logic—that eunuchs only are fit for nurses

I have five young ladies who act in the capacity of nurses—i e, one of them is French , young and beautiful

of good jelly; I carry a good sized jar to a ward, have it opened, get a spoon, and taking the head nurse

C of that regiment, Isaac Snyder; he is now acting as nurse there, and makes a very good one.

the other hospitals I met with general cordiality and deference among the doctors, ward officers, nurses

Of course there are exceptions of good officials here, and some of the women nurses are excellent, but

surgeons in charge of many of the hospitals, and often the ward surgeons, medical cadets, and head nurses

Each ward has a Ward-master, and generally a nurse for every ten or twelve men.

Some of the wards have a woman nurse—the Armory-square wards have some very good ones.

The nurse from Ward E to whom Whitman refers may be Amanda Akin Stearns, whose memoir of her time as

a nurse in Armory Square General Hospital is titled, The Lady Nurse of Ward E .

that could not be repressed—sometimes a poor fellow dying, with emaciated face and glassy eye, the nurse

bring George home with you and how nicely we would establish him in our front room with Mat as chief nurse

We have a "youngest" a year old who is a nobleman and beauty who must have a good nurse in order that

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

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

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

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

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