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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

Have not got on track of a nurse yet.Tuesday, October 15, 18897.15 P.M.

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

As to a new nurse, W., "We're all hoping it will be the right man."

I find myself very anxious on this point of the nurse.

I never felt this so much as with nurses—how some have the nurse's gift.

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

He had nursed her husband in the hospital at Washington.

He is carefully attended by a male nurse, sent by his friend Dr. Bucke of London, Ont.

The nurse is a strong and sympathetic young Canadian, and the expense is met by a number of Whitman's

Saw several persons in the course of the day about a nurse for W.—, two doctors, S.

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

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

As to a new nurse, W., "We're all hoping it will be the right man."

introduced the latter as the man Gould had secured as his successor—the other his friend, a professional nurse

I find myself very anxious on this point of the nurse.

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

Referring to the matter of the nurse, W. said laughingly: "It is with that as with the getting a husband

Then laughed over the fact that the new nurse had not turned up today—made no sign.

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

negro waitress who so effusively greeted him at the hall the night of the dinner had had a husband nursed

They also presented him with a nurse's chair for his use about the house.

Davis & his nurse & we could have a jolly time.

In the MS., (my portion) where I had written simply "Whitman's nurse, Edward Wilkins"—he suggested "Whitman's

Canadian friend and nurse"—an admirable change, removing the servility implied by the first phrase.

I told W. that in soliciting contributions to the nurse fund I had never put it on the ground of poverty

but of necessity that a nurse should be kept and of the grace it would do W.'

Even the nurse remarked the other night when Kemper sat in the parlor with us that "the way Mr.

would be much gained by making such a change, I am well aware—the best doctors, surgeons, rooms, nursing

I never felt this so much as with nurses—how some have the nurse's gift.

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

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

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

And he added: "I don't seem to be a hospital person: I rebel against the idea of being nursed, cared

There's no use nursing the memory of it: it's best forgotten.

it is poor O'Connor who should have the nurse, not me: poor William: he deserves it, I do not."

The talk got upon the nurse fund.

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

have spent a summer with him at the Asylum—on the farm: till you meet the doctors, the patients, the nurses

If I had known earlier I would have gone on to Los Angeles myself, to nurse the lad; but this seems unnecessary

where, for what: but Mary Davis talked with him: she knows much about that peculiar disease, having nursed

And he added: "I don't seem to be a hospital person: I rebel against the idea of being nursed, cared

during the War to whom justice has never been done—the telegraph boys, the cadet physicians, the nurses

There's no use nursing the memory of it: it's best forgotten.

He's a surgeon, Horace, you notice: you remember what I've always said: surgeons, mothers, nurses—they

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

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

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

As I was going W. said: "I'm nursing up a surprise for you." "Good or bad?"

mind and after all wrote a dozen lines or so, which I have just sent up to the post office by 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.

He does not know how I am paying for the nurse. The "circle" is my own creation.

Nurse said he stayed up unusually late last evening. Generally turns in about ten.

Whitman,I am glad you can do the nursing article. Thanks for the Father Taylor.

Gilder's request I write to ask if you would not write us a short, comprehensive paper on Hospital Nursing