Empty Sleeves: Amputation in the Civil War South

Author/Contributor(s):	Miller, Brian Craig
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	03/15/2015
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The Civil War shattered both the flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers. Brian Craig Miller shows how the hospital emerged as the first arena where southerners faced the stark reality of what amputation would mean for men and women and their respective positions in southern society after the war.