Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War (Robert D. Hicks - BH) Atkinson remembered

remembered

untimely death in 1865

Philadelphia fell to the British

By late 1862

The Union assaults continued on August 30 until Longstreet launched a massive assault that rolled up the Union left flank and collapsed Pope’s army

Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War (Robert D. Hicks - BH) Atkinson rememberedby 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