Aaron, Daniel. The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War. New York: Knopf, 1973.
Barthes, Roland. Writing in Degree Zero.
Douglass, Mary. Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology. New York: Pantheon, 1973.
Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989.
Kinney, Katherine. "Making Capital: War, Labor, and Whitman in Washington, D.C." in Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies. Ed. Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.
Moon, Michael. "Memorial Rags" in Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature. Ed. George E. Haggerty and Bonnie Zimmerman. New York: Modern Language Association, 1995. 233-240.
Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985.
Sweet, Timothy. Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1990.
Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden, Volume III. New York: Mitchell Kennerly, 1914.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985.
Whitman, Walt. The Correspondence, Volume I: 1842-1867. Ed. Edwin Haviland Miller. New York: New York UP, 1961.
-----. Leaves of Grass, A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, Volume II: Poems, 1860-1867. Ed. Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthurs Golden, William White. New York: New York UP, 1980.
-----. Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, Volume II: Washington. Ed. Edward F. Grier. New York: New York UP, 1984.
--Whitman Hypertext Archive This is the definitive site on Walt Whitman, offering all of his poetic and prose works, all extant photographs of the poet, bibliographies of contemporary reviews and modern critical studies, teaching units, and much more.
--"Whitman's Drum Taps and Washington's Civil War Hospitals". This fine essay by Angela Price includes biographical information about Whitman, lots of material on the hospitals in the nation's capital and good photographs. The page is part of a very large site on Washington, D.C.
--Whitman's Notebooks at the Library of Congress This page of the Library of Congress American Memory site lists the four Whitman notebooks which the Library offers in digital format through the internet. Browsing through notebook #94, "1862," one will find a wide range of Whitman notes on his hospital work during the war, and drafts of such poems as "The Artilleryman's Vision." The images of the manuscript provide a sense of Whitman at work, writing and revising as he spoke to wounded soldiers in the hospitals.
--MemorandaThis is an annotated version of Whitman's Memoranda that includes information about the soldiers mentioned.