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

Type-setting, carpentering, editing, army nursing, all these resulted in my love for humanity and sympathy

I gave Ed a letter to Gould about a new nurse. Hard to secure!

to see her in Miss Lucretia MacTub MacTab , and in the Old Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, and in Mrs.

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

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

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.

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

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

the man himself—his friend kept me busily engaged—but I discovered he was pretty green—had never nursed

that he is not wanted, that his room is better than his company, that he has a good heart—that he can nurse

Ingersoll was there at Croton day after day—nursing, inspiring, a very mother of mercy and good will.

been looking forward to as a happy reunion, was given over to anxiety & telegrams to doctors and nurses

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

This rather staggered me, as experience has shown how difficult it is to get a nurse for W. who combines

Have not got on track of a nurse yet. Monday, October 14, 1889

s health—asked him if he did not feel better than a year ago—W. only responding: "I have a good nurse

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

Evidently nursing the rather diminutive flame, which soon, however, blazed up and induced him to go back

.: "The nurse thinks you have had an easier day." W.: "I don't know—I don't know.

written 22d. inst.) containing the following passage: "If I had a good hospital well conducted—some good nurse—to

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

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

"I think you are well off as to doctors and nurses now—Osler, Walsh and Wilkins—it is a strong team and

reached over quietly and took my hand: "Not to speak of you, Horace, who are worth all the doctors and nurses

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

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.

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

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

The new nurse, whose name is Musgrove, is an older man than Baker.

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

Kindly tell me how you are arranging the thing, what the expense of a nurse is and how you are collecting

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

To see Childs, too, and considerable talk with him anent nurse at W.'s and W.'s affairs generally.

W. don't think because I am a nurse you must eat when you do not wish to"—he replied, "You will find

counties is supplied by the New York venders; and I doubt if a physician would any sooner recommend a nurse

threatening rain—My sister Lou this forenoon with a nice chicken & some Graham biscuits—Warren (my nurse

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. 

W. in handing me letter from Bucke which came today, said: "He speaks there of a change of the nurse.

I do not hear good accounts of your present nurse (Musgrove) and I have just written to Horace about

Bucke approached W. on the subject of a nurse.

You fellows have about convinced me that I should have a nurse.

found—which, with great manly strength, unites sweet delicacy, soft as a woman's, gentle enough to nurse

this is essential, the crowning requisite) the physiological Leaves of Grass—the Leaves of Grass nursed

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

when Ingersoll said "Let Walt have it" and it was done, I knew we would still have to pay for the nurse

Whitman fund—am trying to get a small monthly guarantee each from a group of people to pay for the nurse

He knows the nurse is put here by his friends. I have not explained anything to him in detail.

Bucke's letter of the thirtieth to me, in which he said on the nurse question: "Still you say nothing

We have not given him any details of the fund which puts the nurse in the house, but he knows of it in

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

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

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

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

The nurse came to carriage—then had Garrison come to second-story window.

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