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Wednesday, March 20, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The talk got upon the nurse fund.

"Harlots and sinners—discredited persons, criminals: they should be my audience: women, doctors, nurses

Thursday, March 21, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

turning to me: "What he seems most to need is a skilful able-bodied man—a nurse.

Tuesday, March 26, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I told W. of a French nurse whose method of dealing with children had interested me.

Tuesday, April 2, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I showed him a card I had from Josephine Lazarus, who had come into my nurse fund.

Thursday, December 6, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

your hands: yet I would have you always lean to the side of mercy—don't oppress me with doctors, nurses

W.: "Yes, a bad form: it meant death, death: I nursed many a man down with diarrhæa."

it was very bad: we nursed him: I was there once, twice, often three times a day: posted the nurses,

It had occurred while no attendants were present— "cadets, nurses, doctors, me."

ago—the devilishly obstinate, illiterate boy he was: no one could do anything with him: doctors, nurses

Saturday, December 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

His nurse, Wilkins, said Mr.

Tuesday, December 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

early years: teaching, loafing, working on the newspapers: traveling: then in Washington—clerking, nursing

Saturday, December 22, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

they call it The Other Side of the War: it is written by Katharine Wormeley: I think she must be a nurse

Tuesday, December 25, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

the door there unassisted—must help myself with a chair, the table, anything—sometimes calling the nurse

Wednesday, December 26, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"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

Thursday, December 27, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Bucke, Osler, Wharton and Walsh, and a good nurse, Edward Wilkins, a young, strong Canadian.

Thursday, January 3, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Talked of nurses. "After all the best nurses are women—at the last the women are always called in.

Men are the best nurses up to that point—then, somehow, the woman tells."

She was without any of the absurd pruderies which unfit so many young women for nursing."

But "the ideal nurse is yet to come."

A man is naturally a perfect nurse when he is himself, but he never is himself!"

Monday, September 17th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

After B. was gone W. said: "He's a gentle fellow—was a sweet nurse: it was like good health to have him

Wednesday, September 19th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Burroughs advises more energetic, even drastic, nursing—rubbing, massage, and so on.

Sunday, September 30th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Had slept later than usual—to 11 from 9.30 last night, nurse said.

Tuesday, October 2nd, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Nurse says W.'s bowels are open but much of the food passes through undigested.

Sunday, October 7th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The nurse's daily report, as I enter and nod to him in the parlor, is "tolerable, tolerable"—and Mrs.

Saturday, October 13th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I explained: "The same people who put the nurse here." He was touched deeply. "And who are they?"

Wednesday, October 24, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

When I called, found the vestibule door unfastened and apparently no one about—neither nurse nor Mrs.

I had never heard him in all the months before express any desire for the presence of a nurse—even care

where the nurse might be—but this evening he said: "I do not like his staying so long and saying nothing

Friday, October 26, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

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

Wednesday, October 31, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

W. received a long letter from Bucke to-daytoday talking about the change in nurses.

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

"Death's Valley" (1892)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

Lines 5–11 suggest Whitman's service as a nurse during the Civil War and echo passages from Drum-Taps

"Excelsior" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Rechel-White, Julie A.
Text:

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

Falmouth, Virginia

  • Creator(s): Rietz, John
Text:

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

Heroes and Heroines

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

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

'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

Washington, D.C. [1863–1873]

  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

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

Whitman, George Washington

  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

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

Fritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)

  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

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

"Drum-Taps" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Gutman, Huck
Text:

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.

Davis, Mary Oakes (1837 or 1838–1908)

  • Creator(s): Singley, Carol J.
Text:

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

Gilder, Richard Watson (1844–1909)

  • Creator(s): Roberson, Susan L.
Text:

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

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

Anderson, Sherwood (1876–1941)

  • Creator(s): Bidney, Martin
Text:

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

Eakins, Thomas (1844–1916)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

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

Farnham, Eliza W. (1815–1864)

  • Creator(s): Ceniza, Sherry
Text:

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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823–1911)

  • Creator(s): Harris, W. Edward
Text:

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

Whitman, Andrew Jackson (1827–1863)

  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807–1892)

  • Creator(s): Rechel-White, Julie A.
Text:

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

Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839)

  • Creator(s): Tyrer, Patricia J.
Text:

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

Longaker, Dr. Daniel (1858–1949)

  • Creator(s): Singley, Carol J.
Text:

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.

Sawyer, Thomas P. (b. ca. 1843)

  • Creator(s): Kantrowitz, Arnie
Text:

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

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

"Reconciliation" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Mason-Browne, N.J.
Text:

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

"Return of the Heroes, The" (1867)

  • Creator(s): Freund, Julian B.
Text:

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

Media Interpretations of Whitman's Life and Works

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
Text:

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

Music, Whitman's Influence on

  • Creator(s): Leathers, Lyman L.
Text:

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.

Nature

  • Creator(s): Doudna, Martin K.
Text:

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

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