"The Wound Dresser: a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion."
Description:
Following the Battle of Fredericksburg, poet Walt Whitman went to Washington and proceeded to care for sick and wounded soldiers in the military hospitals. Here, in an essay contributed to the New York times of December 11, 1864, Whitman describes the sufferings and death of an Armory Square patient, John Mahay.
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