The preoccupations and sentiments of a common soldier caught in the most traumatic conflict in American history Private Silas W. Haven, a native New Englander transplanted to Iowa, enlisted in 1862 to
"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 wh
The Civil War acted like a battering ram on human beings, shattering both flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers. Despite popular perception that doctors recklessly erred on the side of amputation,
