Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North Handley-Cousins Sarah
Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North Handley-Cousins Sarah In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. In Bodies in Blue, Sarah…
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Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North Handley-Cousins Sarah
In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. In Bodies in Blue, Sarah Handley-Cousins expands and complicates our understanding of wartime disability by examining a variety of bodies and ailments, ranging from the temporary to the chronic, from disease to injury, and encompassing both physical and mental conditions. But war affects the body in countless ways, many of them understudied by historians.
She studies the cases of well-known individuals, such as Union general Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, alongside many cases drawn from the ranks to provide a more comprehensive view of how soldiers, civilians, and institutions grappled with war-related disability in the Civil War-era North.During the Civil War and long after, the bodies of Union soldiers and veterans were sites of powerful cultural beliefs about duty and sacrifice.
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