Books by Sarah Handley-Cousins

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins expands our understanding of wartime disability by examining a variety of bodies and ailments, ranging from the temporary to the chronic, from disease to injury, and both physical and mental conditions.

An innovative look at all of the disabling experiences to which northern soldiers were subjected - physical and mental, in camp and on the battlefield