Pathway to Hell : A Tragedy of the American Civil War

Brandt, Dennis W./ Wheeler, Richard (FRW)

Bison Books（2010/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780803228245
• DDC分類 973.7

Full Description

Shell shock, battle fatigue, posttraumatic stress disorder, lack of moral courage: different terms for the same mental condition, formal names that change with observed circumstances and whenever experts feel prompted to coin a more suitable descriptive term for the shredding of the human spirit. Although the specter of psychological dysfunction has marched alongside all soldiers in all wars, always at the ready to ravish minds, rarely is it discussed when the topic is America's greatest conflict, the Civil War. Yet mind-destroying terror was as present at Gettysburg and Antietam as in Vietnam and today in Iraq and Afghanistan. Drawing almost exclusively from extensive primary accounts, Dennis W. Brandt presents a detailed case study of mental stress that is exceptional in the vast literature of the American Civil War. Pathway to Hell offers sobering insight into the horrors that war wreaked upon one young man and illuminates the psychological aspect of the War Between the States.

Contents

Foreword by Richard WheelerPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPrologue: And So It Concludes1. Influences2. Growing Up3. Pennsylvania Calls4. When It Was Still Called Glory5. Fight!6. Down in the Valley7. Closer to Darkness8. Bloodiest Day9. Hell Itself10. Top of the Slide11. Depths12. Home, Where the War Never Ends13. Analyzing the Dead14. Was Angelo Unique?EpilogueA Psychiatric Meditation: Thoughts on Angelo Crapsey by Thomas P. Lowry, MDSelected BibliographyIndex