The Wound Dresser: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Wound Dresser, credited to Walt Whitman, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Wound Dresser, by Walt Whitman. Read by R. S. Steinberg. 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Wound Dresser
• Author credits: Walt Whitman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 5:30:53

Catalogue topics

• letters
• memoirs
• Civil War
• hospitals
• war wounded
• battle wounds
• Union
• nursing

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface — 5:15
2. 02 - The Great Army of the Wounded — 15:51
3. 03 - Life Among Fifty Thousand Soldiers — 15:04
4. 04 - Hospital Visits - I — 21:47
5. 05 - Hospital Visits - II — 21:52
6. 06 - Letters of 1862-3 I-V — 22:38
7. 07 - Letters of 1862-3 VI-X — 24:09
8. 08 - Letters of 1862-3 XI-XV — 29:41
9. 09 - Letters of 1862-3 XVI-XX — 22:25
10. 10 - Letters of 1862-3 XXI-XXV — 31:15
11. 11 - Letters of 1862-3 XXVI-XXX — 27:32
12. 12 - Letters of 1864 I-V — 17:22
13. 13 - Letters of 1864 VI-X — 14:45
14. 14 - Letters of 1864 XI-XV — 19:36
15. 15 - Letters of 1864 XVI-XX — 10:58
16. 16 - Letters of 1864 XXI-XXV — 16:35
17. 17 - Letters of 1864 XXVI-XXIX, and Afterword — 14:12

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