"The harder heroism of the hospital:" Union veterans and the creation of disability, 1862-1910
The unprecedented size and scope of the American Civil War fundamentally redefined the relationship between state and citizen. Through its conscription laws, the Union government empowered itself to standardize and evaluate the bodies of its citizens; the concurrent General Law pension system extend...
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University of Iowa
2015
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1588 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5640&context=etd |