Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Year That Trembled and Reel'd beneath Me 1
4. 1 Doctors' Bodies: Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Patient Malingering 29
5. 2 Dead Bodies: Mourning Fictions and the Corporeity of Heaven 58
6. 3 Sanitized Bodies: The United States Sanitary Commission and Soul Sickness 84
7. 4 Experimental Bodies: African American Writers and the Rehabilitation of War Work 113
8. 5 Soldiers' Bodies: Historical Fictions and the Sickness of Battle 146
9. 6 Nursing Bodies: Civil War Women and Postbellum Regeneration 180
10. 7 Historical Bodies: African American Scholars and the Discipline of History 210
11. Epilogue: Conjuring Civil War Bodies 238
12. Notes 259
13. Bibliography 301
14. Index 317
15. Acknowledgments 331