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04716aam a2200613 i 4500 001 9AB59664246D11E5A97E42B6DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150707010042 008 141028s2015 gaua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014023161 020 $a 0820343323 020 $a 9780820343327 020 $a 0820343315 020 $a 9780820343310 035 $a (OCoLC)892432221 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CDX $d STF $d NOH $d ABH $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E625 $b .M55 2015 060 4 $a WB 116 $b M647e 2015 082 00 $a 973.7/75 $2 23 100 1 $a Miller, Brian Craig, $e author. 245 10 $a Empty sleeves : $b amputation in the Civil War South / $c Brian Craig Miller. 264 1 $a Athens, Georgia : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xvi, 257 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Uncivil wars 520 2 $a "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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Amputees $z Southern States $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Amputation $x History $z Southern States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Surgery, Military $z Southern States $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Veterans. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Veterans. 650 0 $a Disabled veterans $z Southern States $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Masculinity $x History $z Southern States $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Medical care. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Medical care. 651 0 $a United States $x Social aspects. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Social aspects. 651 0 $a Confederate States of America $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a Southern States $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 650 2 $a Amputees $x psychology. 650 2 $a Amputees $x history $x history $z United States. 650 2 $a Amputees $x history $x history $z Confederate States of America. 650 2 $a Amputation $x history $z United States. 650 2 $a Amputation $x history $z Confederate States of America. 650 2 $a Military Medicine $x history $z United States. 650 2 $a Military Medicine $x history $z Confederate States of America. 650 2 $a American Civil War. 650 2 $a History, 19th Century. 830 0 $a Uncivil wars. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019020523.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170304041300.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331011521.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9AB59664246D11E5A97E42B6DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search