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Mending Broken Soldiers : The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs

The four years of the Civil War saw bloodshed on a scale unprecedented in the history of the United States. Thousands of soldiers and sailors from both sides who survived the horrors of the war faced hardship for the rest of their lives as amputees. Now Guy R. Hasegawa presents the first volume to e...

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Autor principal: Hasegawa, Guy R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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