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The Wound Dresser

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New York Times, the Brooklyn Eagle and his mother, edited by Richard Maurice Burke, M.D., one of Whitman's literary executors. (Summary by R. S. Steinberg)

Genre(s): War & Military, Memoirs, Letters

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	01 - Preface	R. S. Steinberg	00:05:15
Play 02	02 - The Great Army of the Wounded	R. S. Steinberg	00:15:51
Play 03	03 - Life Among Fifty Thousand Soldiers	R. S. Steinberg	00:15:04
Play 04	04 - Hospital Visits - 1	R. S. Steinberg	00:21:46
Play 05	05 - Hospital Visits - 2	R. S. Steinberg	00:21:52
Play 06	06 - Letters of 1862-3 I-V	R. S. Steinberg	00:22:38
Play 07	07 - Letters of 1862-3 VI-X	R. S. Steinberg	00:24:09
Play 08	08 - Letters of 1862-3 XI-XV	R. S. Steinberg	00:29:40
Play 09	09 - Letters of 1862-3 XVI-XX	R. S. Steinberg	00:22:25
Play 10	10 - Letters of 1862-3 XXI-XXV	R. S. Steinberg	00:31:15
Play 11	11 - Letters of 1862-3 XXVI-XXX	R. S. Steinberg	00:27:31
Play 12	12 - Letters of 1864 I-V	R. S. Steinberg	00:17:22
Play 13	13 - Letters of 1864 VI-X	R. S. Steinberg	00:14:45
Play 14	14 - Letters of 1864 XI-XV	R. S. Steinberg	00:19:36
Play 15	15 - Letters of 1864 XVI-XX	R. S. Steinberg	00:10:57
Play 16	16 - Letters of 1864 XXI-XXV	R. S. Steinberg	00:16:35
Play 17	17 - Letters of 1864 XXVI-XXIX and Afterword	R. S. Steinberg	00:14:12

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