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Invisible Wounds : Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers /

"Dillon J. Carroll's Invisible Wounds examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers-Black and white, North and South. Soldiers faced harsh military discipline, arduous marches, poor rations, debilitating disease...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Carroll, Dillon J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The experience of soldiering in the Civil War
  • Black soldiers in the Civil War
  • St. Elizabeth's Hospital and mental-health care during the Civil War
  • How soldiers coped with the trauma of war
  • Union veterans after Appomattox
  • Mental illness and Union veterans
  • African American veterans and mental illness
  • Confederate veterans and mental illness
  • The families of mentally ill Civil War veterans
  • St. Elizabeth's Hospital after the Civil War
  • The rise of neurology and Civil War veterans.