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Physician.

Information about Wheeler is scarce; he was a surgeon for the U. S. Navy who met Walt Whitman at Pfaff’s. The poet did not seem to form a favorable opinion of Wheeler, if his description of the doctor as a “damned shyster” is anything to go by (Glicksberg 275).

References & Biographical Resources

Glicksberg, Charles I. "Walt Whitman in 1862." American Literature. 1934. 264-282. [more about this work]

A surgeon for United States Navy who met Whitman at Pfaffs. Whitman described him as a "damned shyster." [pages: 275]