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I get out into the air if nurse open every day, possible ; my [the young man I had seen downstairs] wheels

Nurses, with babies and little were about the and I children, sitting logs, enticed one bright littleboy

crowd on the wharf wait ing the arrival of the ship, and with him were Horace Traubel and Whitman's nurse

She had the children to nurse and look after,and there was Gilchrist's book to see to.

own hand in my propp'd up bed, deadly weak yet, but the spark seems to glimmer yet the doctors & nurses

crowd on the wharf waiting the arrival of the ship, and with him were Horace Traubel and Whitman's nurse

"You were also a nurse during the war," put in the reporter, by way of information to the venerable poet

I went to and fro among the wards as an independent nurse; on my hook, as the soldier said who laid behind

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

How he went down on the field in '61, and spent four years as a hard-working, unpaid army nurse, when

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

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

within a few months paid him a visit, made a series of photographs of dwelling, street, room, and nurse

men need to know of him is his wonderful simplicity and capaciousness—that manuscript, house, room, nurse

Plato gives in the first pages of the Republic—enjoying the abiding presence of sweet hope, that 'kind nurse

writes publicly acceptable poems of American patriotism so dear to the father's heart, Whitman the male nurse

in Whitman's life and work, foremost among them the continued failure of his book, his Civil War nursing

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

refused so many things I did not like to tell mother but first Charlie was very ugly He would not get a nurse

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.

Camden teacher and Whitman's friend, who insisted on the photos] and Ed: W [Ed Wilkins, Whitman's nurse

He then goes on to show-and emphasize-how Whitman entered the Civil War as a volunteerand a nurse.

The image of Whitman as nurse and wound-dresser who, through his mere presence, helped wounded soldiers

The nursing myth has been carried to its greatest extreme: at sundown Whitman was crying(!)

essence pacifist war W HITM AN ON THE RIGHT poetry (supported biographicallythrough his work as a nurse

Whitman's much-praised efforts in nursing wounded soldiers were denounced as the lecherous pursuits ofa

In the conservatives’ most extreme warnings, the benighted citizen nurses his parochial and selfish hatreds

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

the violet: / Humility is the fair-haired maid, that calleth Worth her brother, / the gentle silent nurse

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

One of the nurses constantly fanshim,foritisfearfullyhot.Heaskstoberais’dup,andtheyputhiminahalf- sitting

Warren Fritzinger, WW’s male nurse. 2.

butwithnormalmentalityandgoodright-armpower.Heyetlivesinhiscottage,withhousekeeper 108 T H E C O L L E C T E D W R I T I N G S O F WA L T W H I T M A N and nurse

You were a "Nurse" in 1861. You are the biggist of humbug Poets of this or precedent generation! G.

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

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

department by Secretary Harlan and gained him the friendship of Tennyson, and of the days when its author nursed

Alcott had since visited him, perhaps in Washington, where Miss Alcott, like Whitman, was a hospital nurse

heregardedfarmersin the rural areas and workers in the coal pits, respectively, as the nurses of humanity

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfullywelcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

Miss But ton [Whitman's next-door neighbor] told an anecdote ofWhitman, when an army nurse in Washington

identity, from the young New York reporter/flâneur to the working class rough to the careworn Civil War nurse

the years after the war, many successful reminiscences of Civil War hospitals, written mostly by nurses

aware that there was a market for such books, but his, of course, would be something different from a nursing

where for the next ten years (punctuated by trips back to Brooklyn) he lived and worked as volunteer nurse

Let him who can do so, shroud the eyes of the nursing babe lest it should see its mother's breast.

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

Whitman on the Camden wharf with Warren Fritzinger, who was his nurse and companion during the last three

you, but the pressure is so great that I can't get the moment to sit down, for as yet I am the only nurse

If things get worse I shall have to have a man to help me lift & nurse William.

I am sure he could advise me how to nurse & care for William in the best hospital manner,—as yet he has

I said 'Let it go', but doctors and nurses made a strong pull for it; fought for it like royal tigers

As he requires constant attendance night and day, we yesterday introduced a trained nurse, Mrs.

most intimate friends, afterward his biographer, and one of his literary executors, met me at the Nurses

This was Warren Fritzinger,* **Died in October 1899. his nurse, and my constant associate in taking care

And that strange feeling which comes over patient and nurse when they are learning to know each other

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

would have stayed longer with you only for some of the Camden fellows that was keeping up the nurce nurse

—He also gave my nurse each night instructions that at the end of each 2 hours, I should take a milk

Exclusiveness and war were the nurses of growing humanity's powers— of com- radeship,organised life,community

voyage did me much good, and when I arrived at Rugby, I was well enough to help for a month or two in nursing

Philadelphia to visit Whitman on July 15, 1890, and that evening photographed Whitman and his favorite nurse

Bolton, England, this photograph shows Whitman in his wheelchair, attended by his last and favorite nurse

When Warry’s parents died, Mary became his guardian, and she talked him into becoming Whitman’s nurse

Bolton, England, this photograph shows Whitman in his wheelchair, attended by his last and favorite nurse

When Warry’s parents died, Mary became his guardian, and she talked him into becoming Whitman’s nurse

I was very sorry to hear from M rs Traubel that you were going to lose your good, kind nurse M Zeller

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

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

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

Later, on a day trip with Douglas, Paschal, her son, and the slave Sophy who was his nurse, Douglas presented

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

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