Introduction; 1. What is a Union veteran?; 2. Changed men; 3. When war came; 4. Perilous years; 5. Aftershocks; 6. Trials of black veterans; 7. Heavy laden; Conclusion.
Highlights the severity of the Civil War's psychological aftereffects for veterans of the Union army.
Larry M. Logue is a Senior Fellow at the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, New York. He received a Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. His books include To Appomattox and Beyond: The Civil War Soldier in War and Peace (1995) and Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: Veterans and Benefits in Post-Civil War America (Cambridge, 2010), co-authored with Peter Blanck. Peter Blanck is University Professor at Syracuse University, New York and chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute. Blanck received a Juris Doctorate from Stanford University, California, where he was President of the Stanford Law Review, and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University, Massachusetts. His recent books include Routledge Handbook of Disability Law and Human Rights (2016), co-edited with Eilionoir Flynn, and e-Quality: The Struggle for Web Accessibility by Persons with Cognitive Disabilities (Cambridge, 2016).
'The hidden injuries of war are by no means an invention of the
last hundred years. Veterans of the American Civil War carried the
often silent and unacknowledged traces of combat with them, in body
and soul, for the rest of their lives. Logue and Blanck merit our
gratitude for having brought the American soldiers of 1861–65,
Northerners and Southerners, black and white, into the growing body
of literature on the war-related mortality and morbidity of
soldiers who return from war.' Jay Winter, author of War beyond
Words: Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present
and editor of The Cambridge History of the First World War
'Suicide amongst veterans is an enigma. It is shocking, deeply
disturbing, and tragic in nature, with the potential of damning the
impact of war. But, it is subject to extremes: it can either defy
analysis due to underreporting and the elusive nature of assigning
causation, or it can slip into a melodramatic tirade against war.
Logue and Blanck recognize the subtleties of the subject, and
deliver a nuanced consideration of the plight of Civil War
veterans, centering on the topic of suicide. A must-read for those
concerned about the impact of this or any war.' Eric T. Dean, Jr,
author of Shook over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the
Civil War
'Logue and Blanck offer groundbreaking analyses and insights of how
veterans across the spectrum of humanity perceived and coped with
warfare's consequences. Logue and Blanck brilliantly open up new
historical vistas, reminding me of the promise by which I closed
The Center Cannot Hold: 'the humanity we all share is more
important than the mental illness we may not'.' Elyn Saks, author
of The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness, from the
foreword
'An important read for students of veterans affairs.' The NYMAS
Review
'… [the authors'] expansive source base, illuminating demographic
comparisons, and nuanced portrait of the distinctive burden that
Civil War soldiers had to bear are impressive.' Kathryn Shively
Meier, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
'This genuinely interdisciplinary work offers the exciting
potential opportunity for further research into veteran communities
which integrates History, Law, Disability Studies, Medicine, and
Policy.' Michael Robinson, War in History
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