Loading...
The living remained and suffered: combat-related adjustment issues and Civil War veterans in post-war America
Jones, Jonathan Scott
Jones, Jonathan Scott
Citations
Altmetric:
Soloist
Composer
Publisher
[Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University,
Date
2013
Additional date(s)
Abstract
Historians have recently demonstrated that some veterans of the Civil War suffered from what would today be considered Posttraumatic Stress Disorder or similar psychiatric dysfunctions as a result of their traumatic combat experiences. In order to quantitatively measure occurrences of those conditions among veterans in the postwar decades, records of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) from the years 1885 to 1900, including annual reports by the soldiers' homes Board of Directors, were used to record instances of symptoms and dysfunctions for which resident veterans were disabled that would today be associated with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Of a sample including 68,791 Union veterans living at the NHDVS branch homes, between 5.4 and 10.4 percent likely suffered from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder or related dysfunctions.
Contents
Subject
Subject(s)
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Genre
Thesis
Description
Format
Department
History