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

Army of the Potomac

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

Philadelphia fell to the British

By late 1862

remembered

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