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Invisible wounds : mental illness and Civil War soldiers / Dillon J. Carroll.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carroll, Dillon J., author.
- Series:
- Conflicting worlds
- Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army--Military life--History--19th century.
- United States.
- United States. Army.
- Psychic trauma.
- History.
- War neuroses.
- Veterans.
- Social conditions.
- Soldiers.
- Mental health.
- Psychological aspects.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Psychological aspects.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Mental health.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.
- Soldiers--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Veterans--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- War neuroses--United States--History--19th century.
- Psychic trauma--United States--History--19th century.
- Armed Forces--Military life.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Soldiers--Social conditions.
- Veterans--Mental health.
- Veterans--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 324 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Mental illness and Civil War soldiers
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "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 diseases, and the terror of battle, all of which took a severe psychological toll. While mental collapses sometimes occurred during the war, the emotional damage soldiers incurred more often became apparent in the postwar years, when it manifested itself in disturbing and self-destructive behavior. Carroll explores the dynamic between the families of mentally ill veterans and the superintendents of insane asylums, as well as between those superintendents and doctors in the nascent field of neurology, who increasingly believed the central nervous system or cultural and social factors caused mental illness. Invisible Wounds is a sweeping reevaluation of the mental damage inflicted by the nation's most tragic conflict"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The Experience of Soldiering in the Civil Wat
- 2. Black Soldiets in the Civil War
- 3. St. Elizabeth's Hospital and Mental-Health Care during the Civil War
- 4. How Soldiers Coped with the Trauma of War
- 5. Union Veterans after Appomattox
- 6. Union Veterans and Mental Illness
- 7. African American Veterans and Mental Illness
- 8. Confederate Veterans and Mental Illness
- 9. The Families of Mentally Ill Civil War Veterans
- 10. St. Elizabeth's Hospital after the Civil War
- 11. The Rise of Neurology and Civil War Veterans.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-319) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Carroll, Dillon J. Invisible wounds
- ISBN:
- 9780807169667
- 0807169668
- OCLC:
- 1249072750
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