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Feeling right about the Civil War: the Union’s battle for emotional health

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Susan-Mary Grant

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Abstract

Civil War combat trauma remains a subject of interest to scholars studying the social and psychological changes that the war wrought upon American society. The focus has largely been on the South, but if we look northwards we find that combat trauma was too often masked by victory. But soldiers cannot singlehandedly delineate the contours of the emotional landscape of the wartime North. By locating combat trauma within the emotional nexus of non-combatant communities during and after the war, we can better understand the long-term effects of the Civil War on the development of America as a nation.

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Author(s): Grant S-M

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: American Nineteenth Century History

Year: 2023

Volume: 24

Issue: 1

Pages: 1-28

Online publication date: 10/05/2023

Acceptance date: 04/04/2023

Date deposited: 04/04/2023

ISSN (print): 1466-4658

ISSN (electronic): 1743-7903

Publisher: Taylor and Francis

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14664658.2023.2205683

DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2023.2205683

ePrints DOI: 10.57711/enht-dh61

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