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It makes a valuable contribution to the literature by bringing together in one accessible volume several of the approaches taken by historians of recent years, providing a well-written book that could work very well in undergraduate and some graduate courses. The scholarship is deep enough and the coverage is broad enough to give nonspecialists and students a very good introduction not only to the true cost of the Civil War but also to the attitudes of veterans and nonveterans that so powerfully reflected the moral and medical assumptions of the era.--James Marten Journal of African American History When we think of Civil War disabilities, our thoughts commonly turn to legions of brave amputees, navigating life with the highly visible marker of their wartime sacrifice. In this deeply researched and theoretically sophisticated book, Sarah Handley-Cousins tells a much more complex story of the illnesses and injuries that Civil War soldiers and veterans endured. . . . This is a story about how individuals and institutions battled over how bodies should be defined and categorized and treated by the state. This is a very important book.--J. Matthew Gallman author of The North Fights the Civil War In recent years, historians of the American Civil War have increasingly turned their attention to studying the dark side of the war: the trauma, the devastation, the ruin, and despair. Sarah Handley-Cousins adds to this growing scholarship with her consideration of the broader social and cultural understanding of war-related disabilities in the Civil War North. . . . Bodies in Blue deserves to be on every Civil War reading list, as it highlights just how much the war affected many of those who fought in it.--Angela Riotto H-SHGAPE

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Sarah Handley-Cousins is a clinical assistant professor of history and associate director of the Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of numerous print and digital publications, including articles in the Journal of the Civil War Era and the New York Times DisUnion series. She is an editor of the popular history blog Nursing Clio, as well as producer of Dig: A History Podcast.

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