Invisible wounds : mental illness and Civil War soldiers /

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 diseases and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carroll, Dillon J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021].
Series:Conflicting worlds.
Subjects:
United States. > Army > Military life > History > 19th century.
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.
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.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.