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“My Bruises Are Inward:” A Study of Mental Trauma in the American Civil War
… experienced mental trauma related to their military service. It does so through three lenses. Focused on the mental trauma among Northern veterans, this study investigates in particular the relationship between mental trauma and socioeconomic status. It analyzes the experiences of both white …
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The Confederate Pension Systems in Texas, Georgia, and Virginia: The Programs and the People
The United States government began paying pensions to disabled Union veterans before the Civil War ended in April 1865. By 1890 its pension programs included any Union veteran who had fought in the Civil War, regardless of his financial means, as well as surviving family members, including mothers, …
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The Civil War Pension System and the Nineteenth-Century American State
… government developed an enormous system of military benefits for these men and their families, one that eventually developed into a general disability and old-age pension programme of proportions unprecedented in the nation’s history. Between 1880 and 1910, the federal government devoted …