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<td> <p class="big">Walt Whitman</p>
<p align="center" class="subhead">Civil War Nurse</p>
<p>Walt
Whitman, who spent his last years in Camden, NJ, toiled long
hours tending to the needs of sick and injured soldiers during
the Civil War. His notes and writings about this period
give a fascinating insight into the poet and this sad time in
United States history. </p>
<p>"The expression
of American personality through this war is not to be looked for in the
great campaign, & the battle-fights. It is to be looked for . . . in
the hospitals, among the wounded." [Walt Whitman, from <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/hospital/whitman.htm">Whitman's
Drum Taps and Washington's Civil War Hospitals</a>]</td>
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<span class="subhead">Related Links </span>
<p><b><a href="http://users.tellurian.com/swaa/whitman.html">Bard
of Democracy Buried in Camden: A Short Biography of Walt Whitman</a></b>
(NJPoets.com)
<br>Includes Whitman's
poem, "The Wound Dresser."
<p><b><a href="http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=11955">Walt
Whitman's Civil War</a></b> (Medical Humanities:
Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database, NYU School of Medicine)
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An annotation
about Whitman's memoir of his Civil War experience.
<p><b><a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/hospital/whitman.htm">Whitman's
Drum Taps and Washington's Civil War Hospitals</a></b> (University of Virginia)
<br>An illustrated article about Whitman's
book and the hospitals that he visited.
<p><b><a href="http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=941">The
Wound Dresser</a></b> (Medical Humanities: Literature, Arts, and Medicine
Database, NYU School of Medicine) <br>
An annotation about Whitman's poem with a link to the <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/142/128.html">online
text</a> at Bartleby.com.
<div align="left">For information about Walt Whitman and Camden, NJ, see
<b><a href="http://www.keltaskavern.com/people/whitman.html">Walt Whitman
- Camden's Poet</a></b>. </div>
<p class="subhead">Selected Bibliography
<p>Agris J.
<br>"Walt Whitman". Poet, philosopher,
male nurse.
<br>J Dermatol Surg Oncol. 1979 Nov;5(11):917.
[PMID: 387845]
<p>Baker W.
<br>'I feel much possessed with the
wounded & sick soldiers': an unpublished Walt Whitman letter.
<br>Notes Queries. 1995;42(2):195-6.
[PMID: 11640055]
<p>Davis RL.<br>
The practice of the everyday in the literature of nursing.
<br>
<span title="The Journal of medical humanities">J Med Humanit.</span> 2005 Spring;26(1):7-21. [PMID: 15926033]
<p>Dedmond FB.
<br>"Here among soldiers in hospital":
an unpublished letter from Walt Whitman to Lucia Jane Russell Briggs.
<br>New Engl Q. 1986;59(4):544-8.
[PMID: 11617766]
<p>Foley S, Sofer D, Jacobson J.
<br>'I am faithful, I do not give out'.
Walt Whitman, Civil War poet--and nurse.
<br>
<a href="http://libproxy2.umdnj.edu/login?url=http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=N&LOGOUT=Y&D=ovft&PAGE=fulltext&SEARCH=00000446-200010000-00053.an.">Am
J Nurs. 2000 Oct;100(10):48-9.</a> [PMID: 11059318]
<p>Greenland C.
<br>Walt Whitman, May 31, 1819--March
26, 1892. Sesquicentenary recollections.
<br>Can Med Assoc J. 1969 Aug 9;101(3):152-8.
[PMID: 4896806]
<p>Herschbach L.
<br>"True clinical fictions": medical
and literary narratives from the Civil War Hospital.
<br>Cult Med Psychiatry. 1995 Jun;19(2):183-205.
[PMID: 7497731]
<p>Macduff C.
<br>Meeting the mother man: rediscovering
Walt Whitman, writer and nurse.
<br>Int Hist Nurs J. 1997 Winter;3(2):32-44.
[PMID: 11619809]
<p>Martens PB. <br>
War, Walt Whitman, and William Osler. <br>
<a href="http://muse.jhu.edu.libproxy2.umdnj.edu/journals/literature_and_medicine/v016/16.2martens.html">Lit
Med. 1997 Fall;16(2):210-25.</a> [PMID: 9368227]
<p>Roberts K.<br>
Walt Whitman, Civil War nurse.<br>
<span title="The American journal of medicine">Am J Med.</span> 2005 Jul;118(7):787.
[PMID: 15989915]
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