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he Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans collects and annotates a unique and little-known body of Civil War literature: narrative sketches, accounts, and poetry by veterans who lost the use of their right arms due to wounds sustained during the conflict and who later competed in penmanship contests with their left hands in 1865 and 1866. Organized by William Oland Bourne, the contests called on men who lost their right arms ...

he Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans collects and annotates a unique and little-known body of Civil War literature: narrative sketches, accounts, and poetry by veterans who lost the use of their right arms due to wounds sustained during the conflict and who later competed in penmanship contests with their left hands in 1865 and 1866. Organized by William Oland Bourne, the contests called on men who lost their right arms ...

Drawing on letters, periodical literature, poetry, memoirs, and visual materials, The Scars We Carve shows how pervasive the body was, in word and image, in Americans' understanding of the Civil War as it unfolded. Whether in her attention to competing northern and southern depictions of women as carriers of familial and regional strength or in her focus on figures of heroic and maimed African American soldiers, which stand in sharp counterpoi...