Description
The collection also contains several original pieces written exclusively for Emerging Civil War’s 10th Anniversary Series
Army of the Potomac
By late 1862
They named her Elizabeth
Philadelphia fell to the British
Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War (Robert D. Hicks - BH) Atkinson The collection also contains severalby Robert D. Hicks Most histories of wounded Civil War veterans construe them as feminized men whose manhood has suffered due to their inability to provide for and raise families or engage in business. Wounded for Life complicates this picture by examining how seven veteranssix soldiers and one physiciancoped with their changed bodies in their postwar lives. Through these intimate stories, author Robert D. Hicks looks at the veteran's body as shaped