CONTENTS   Introduction   Memoranda During the War     The Wound Dresser Remembered     Critical Issues     Study Questions     Selected Bibliography   Acknowledgments

A critical introduction to the issue of the Civil War and Whitman's memory.   Whitman's 1875-1876 text with annotations by Martin G. Murray containing extensive biographical information on the soldiers mentioned in Memoranda.   Etexts of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century works that praise, analyze or criticize Whitman's Civil War experiences as a "wound dresser."   Brief excerpts from modern scholars' works that offer significant insights into the interrelationship between Whitman, memory, and the war.   Questions that teachers and students may find useful when using this site in the classroom.   A list of critical and historical studies treating Whitman, the war, and memory.