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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

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

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.

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

You must remember that I am housekeeper, nurse, marketer, & have to see that the house is decent, if

So far I am the only nurse, & if you have been as badly off as he is, you may have some idea of what

You will ask why we don't have a nurse?

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

wanted, all ab't, mainly & detailedly O'C's condition & every thing relating to him —(a good strong man nurse

You must remember that I am housekeeper, nurse, marketer, & have to see that the house is decent, if

So far I am the only nurse, & if you have been as badly off as he is, you may have some idea of what

You will ask why we don't have a nurse & the answer is William does not want one, & is not ready yet,

>Discursively discussed nurses.

W. thought, "They seem impossible to our time—certainly to America—the true nurse must be a male: that

A man to nurse me, not one I must nurse. Oh! that is very esential.

During the Civil War, nursing was not the profession of today.

The Gelman Library, George Washington University Photograph of volunteer nurses.

Photograph of nurse Amanda Akin. Akin tolerated Whitman in person, but just barely.

Perhaps these nurses simply resented Whitman's constant presence in the hospital.

Harper, 1896), 169; Stearns, The Lady Nurse , 246; Whitman, , 1: 329. David S.

Representatives of matrons, sisters and nurses of the Kingdom waited on the Princess Louise of Schleswig–Holstein

these simple lines, being the latest and probably the last from his pen: Take, lady, what your loyal nurses

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.

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

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

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

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

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

well—Logan writes—am sitting here dully enough—stupid—no exhilaration—no massage or wheel-chair to day—my nurse

has disappear'd for the day—now 3½ oclock—If I had a good hospital, well conducted—some good nurse—to

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

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

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!"

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

Now in search of a professional nurse (wants a woman).The Johnston-Wallace cable yesterday was simply

He was rather disappointed that the nurse was a woman, but told Doctor after introduction, "I feel I

But I guess doctors and nurses learn to bear with the poor sick human critter."

I went to see Warrie, who said W. had spoken to him to effect that he had rather the new nurse had been

Nurse was to start this evening to relieve Warrie.Bucke now came up, and he and I went into W.'

Berlin), all the students, & superintendent of nurses.

If one's patient has an ache or pain, the nurse whistles for the student (my whistle is 2).

The number of visits depending on the need & the competency of the nurse.

Sunday Evn'g Dec: 29 '89 Much the same things &c: continued—feeling dull & stupid—dark bad weather—my nurse

little or no grip on my brain—but the doctor gives favorable clues, says pulse is vigorable—my good nurse

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

Whitman, I am glad you can do the nursing article.

night—(Ed goes—I am favorable)—& besides Dr Baker "graduates" this afternoon—you know he is my first nurse—last

Ingersoll to me —my nurse is down stairs practising on his fiddle—he gets along well— Walt Whitman Walt

onnor] (f'm the wife ) to day, & I am gloomy—Dr B[ucke] writes me every day & cheerily—Horace & my nurse

Respectfully Walt Whitman This is Warren Fritzinger, my nurse & friend— Walt Whitman to George Ferguson

better—get out almost daily in the open air, push'd on a wheel'd chair by a stout Canadian friend, my nurse

cogitating of a strong out-door push chair to get out in, to be propell'd by my good hearty Canadian nurse

. — silent curious babes, little accustomed to crying or to any soft and tender nursing.— Transcribed

22 '89 Fine sunny weather continued—Warren Fritzinger , one of Mrs D's sailor boys, is acting as my nurse

I got over the 4th favorably—am sitting here by the window as usual—have had a good supper—My nurse has

welcomed as sunshine—I am sitting here in my den as ever—dark & rainy to-day & yesterday—My Canadian nurse

you & your hospital work, & realized for the first time the awful strain it must have been on you nurses

And give my regards to your Canadian nurse-friend.

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

America Feb: 10 '90 — It is near sunset after a bright winter day & I am waiting for my supper—my young nurse

request a few days ago Yes I will gladly write for the Century an article on the Hospitals & Hospital Nursing

had sent you word not to—all right now tho—it is ab't sun-down—I am waiting for my supper—My young nurse

—have been out in my wheel chair for a 40 minute open air jaunt (propell'd by WF. my sailor boy nurse

home sick the 1 of next month if you are able you must try to come on here lou s Lou's aunt goes to nurse

D sick quite badly—neuralgia—Warry my nurse is helpful & good—of course I am up now & sitting by the

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

ab't 120—remain in good spirits— Walt Whitman the proofs &c don't hurt me—I don't worry them—the new nurse

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

Baker to nurse him.

The nurse found his position something of a sinecure, for his patient would have none of him and it was

his bed room, as he completed his toilet, by stamping his foot in it was the first intimation the nurse

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