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Author Miller, Brian Craig, author.

Title Empty sleeves : amputation in the Civil War South / Brian Craig Miller.

Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Uncivil wars
Uncivil wars.
Summary "This will be the first book about the Civil War to examine the meaning of amputation, and of amputees, in the U.S. South. Brian Craig Miller provides medical history of the procedure, looks at men who rejected amputation, and examines how Southern men and women adjusted their ideas about honor, masculinity, and love in response to the presence of large numbers of amputees during and after the war. While some historians have explored the lives of the wounded, disabled and amputated soldiers throughout the major military conflicts of the twentieth century, few monographs have returned to a time when medical care remained primitive at best in American history: the Civil War. While one recent article explored what amputation may have meant to Union soldiers returning from battle, the same has yet to be done for the losing side in the military conflict. The destruction of slavery, the perseverance of the Union and the triumph of liberty, freedom and equality ensured that the sacrifices of Northern men would be recognized, memorialized and cherished for generations beyond the battlefield. However, can the same be said for Southern amputated men, who returned from the war scarred, disillusioned and defeated? In his travels in the South over the past five years, Miller has combed through archives, producing a wealth of surgical and medical manuals, hospital records, surgeons reports, diary, letter and journal entries pertaining to amputation, legislative records, pension files and applications, newspaper reports and numerous anecdotes about what it means to lose a limb. These sources allow Miller to combine political, medical, military, social, cultural and gender history into a much-needed disability study of the Confederacy"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Empty sleeves in Civil War history and memory -- The surgeons : gray anatomy -- The patients : enduring the "fearfulest test" of manhood -- The women : reconstructing Confederate manhood -- The return : adjusting to dependency and disability -- The state : the politics of paying damages -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Amputation statistics -- Appendix B: Prosthetic limb programs -- Appendix C: Pension programs.
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Subject American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
Amputees -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Amputees.
Southern States.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Amputation -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Amputation.
Social aspects.
History.
Surgery, Military -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Surgery, Military.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans.
Disabled veterans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Disabled veterans.
Masculinity -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Masculinity -- Social aspects.
Masculinity.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
Confederate States of America -- Social conditions.
Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
United States.
Confederate States of America.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Miller, Brian Craig. Empty sleeves. Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015] 9780820343310 (DLC) 2014023161 (OCoLC)892432221
ISBN 9780820343334 (electronic book)
0820343331 (electronic book)
9780820343310 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0820343315 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780820343327 (paperback alkaline paper)
0820343323 (paperback alkaline paper)