A01=Dillon Carroll
anxiety
Author_Dillon Carroll
Category=JKSM
Category=NHW
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combat experiences
Confederacy
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flashbacks
Gilded Age
history
insane asylums
neurologist
nightmares
North
pension
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
psychological
PTSD
self-destructiive behavior
South
terror
trauma
Union
USCT
Product details
- ISBN 9780807169667
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2021
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Dillon J. Carroll is a history instructor at Butte College in Oroville, California. He holds a doctorate in history from the University of Georgia.
