c. 1861-1864 (negative); c. 1950-1955 (print)
Walt Whitman as a Nurse in the Civil War
Ansel AdamsAmerican, 1902 - 1984
Brady took this portrait during the years Walt Whitman served as a volunteer wound dresser in the hospitals of Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. Whitman's writings about his visits were published in a New York newspaper in December 1864, where he wrote that "the magnetic flood of sympathy and friendship . . . does, in its way, more good than all the medicine in the world."
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