Pathway to hell : a tragedy of the American Civil War / Dennis W. Brandt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandt, Dennis W., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crapsey, Angelo M., 1842-1864.

Crapsey, Angelo M.

Crapsey, Angelo M., 1842-1864--Mental health.

Crapsey, Angelo M., 1842-1864--Death and burial.

Soldiers--Pennsylvania--Biography.

Soldiers.

Veterans--Pennsylvania--Biography.

Veterans.

Veterans--Mental health--United States--Case studies.

Post-traumatic stress disorder--United States--Case studies.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Suicide--United States--Case studies.

Suicide.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Psychological aspects--Case studies.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Health aspects--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shell-shock; battle fatigue; post-traumatic stress disorder; lacking moral courage: Different words for the same mental condition, formal names that change with observed circumstances and whenever experts feel the urge to invent a more suitable descriptive term for the shredding of the human spirit. The specter of psychological dysfunction has marched beside all soldiers in all wars, always at the ready to ravish minds. Yet, rarely does it show itself when the topic is America's greatest conflict, the Civil War. A public that venerates well-preserved battlefields seems never to consider that mind-destroying terror was as much present at Gettysburg and Antietam as it was in Vietnam and is now in Baghdad and Afghanistan. This book presents the true but rare story of one young Pennsylvanian who marched into war with a patriotic chip on his shoulder only to stagger home under the burden a two-year life-and-death struggle had pressed upon him. Dennis W. Brandt is an independent scholar.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Prologue: And So It Concludes

Influences

Growing Up

Pennsylvania Calls

When It Was Still Called Glory

Fight!

Down in the Valley

Closer to Darkness

Bloodiest Day

Hell Itself

Top of the Slide

Depths

Home, Where the War Never Ends

Analyzing the Dead

Was Angelo Unique?

Epilogue

A Psychiatric Meditation: Thoughts on Angelo Crapsey

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-197) and index.

ISBN:

0-8453-4528-1

OCLC:

694147611