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Immediately after, he moved to Washington, where he took on the role of a volunteer day nurse, visiting

The speaker then describes “The women volunteering for nurses—the work begun for, in earnest—no mere

So for the next three years, he volunteered his services as a nurse, swapping out ban dages, comforting

time-space oftherecruitmentpoems(“Drum-Taps,”“FirstOSongsforaPrelude”) and in thevivid memories ofaged nurses

in the structure of historical time, we gaze at the stars.Or wewait, or we march.Or we see Whitman 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

Mitchell paid fifteen dollars per month for the next two years to help cover the nursing costs.

Sawyer, a soldier he nursed at Armory Square Hospital.

Whitman was forty-two years old when he went into camp and hospital to nurse soldiers.

Hsu, “Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse,” 238. 174.

“Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse Who Witnessed the Advent of Modern American Medicine.”

Whitman did good service as nurse and attendant in those trying days, and relates scores of pathetic

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

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

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

The child must have had a memory to remember her firstlesso— that of toddling from mother to nurse !

Babington, head the nurse, and we have also of Lying-in Hospital, so I feel sure all isbeing done for

That nurse, from allmy girlssay of her,seems tobe a most anxious painstaking woman.

— The nurse thinks that by next week Anne willbe quite up to her work. ...

Pray ask your 'nurse' and your 'sunshine' toaccept my love.

Dear Giddy has been such an indefatigable & capital nurse & housekeeper!

to be wheeled out in the sunlight in his little coach, propelled by the strong arms of his Canadian nurse

resurrection and immortality.In this interpretation, Whitman mourns naturally the loss of those he knew and nursed

this job enabled Whitman to write his poetry and, at the same time, perform his ministrations as a nurse

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

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.

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

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

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

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

"Nursing the Union soldiers?" "Union and rebel," was the answer.

I nursed him in the hospital."

Our good friend here nursed us both, like our own mother.

times of marriage, the cradle by the fire-lit hearth, the infant's dimpled hand caressing the white nursing

"I nursed them both together in the hospital," he resumed, in a gentler strain.

Other notebooks contain notes Whitman made while working as a nurse in Civil War hospitals in Washington

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

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

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 have nursed her in sickness, made every thing as agreeable and convenient as possible for her household

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

As I saw the case, and heard from the nurse's lips also, it was pitiful to see the agony the poor fellow

Mack, the nurse; and often and often have the soldiers mentioned her, and shown me something she has

He stayed in Washington during and after the Civil War, serving first as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals

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

hospitals compare to those of Harriet Jacobs, Louisa May Alcott, Abraham Lincoln, and now little-known nurses

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

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

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

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

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

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

Some of the nurses are excellent. 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.

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

His devotion as a volunteer nurse in the Civil War needsnorepetition,andhispoetryofthatperiodisanenduringpartofourpa

Let dead hearts tarry, and trade and marry, And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, While we, the

During the War Whitman gave his strength and the health of his future years to nursing his wounded brothers

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

When in 1888 Bucke thought that Whitman, an invalid in New Jersey, needed a new nurse, he sent down a

Whitman did like "Ed," so much that when someone re ferred to him as Whitman's nurse, Whitman corrected

the refer ence to read "Whitman's Canadian friend and nurse."

whowritespubliclyacceptable poems ofAmeri can patriotism so dear to the father's heart, Whitman the male nurse

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

critics, so that they might write about him; at one period I even though of becoming his voluntary nurse

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

Ushered into the snug little parlor, the visitor noted the retreating foot falls of the nurse as she

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

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

precisely the man to organize a regiment on Broadway but selecting the minor & safe function of a nurse

Higginson contrasted Whitman's unmanly devotion to nursing with Sir Philip Sidney's manly exploits as

Col Higginson wanted to know why the noble women nurses of the war sh not receive pensions as well.

Imagine the baseness of a nation allowing, as it did, a man whose health broke down nursing a hundred

Better be a good nurse like Walt Whitman, than a nondescript warrior like the Rev. Col. Higginson."

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