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Introduction. Year That Trembled and Reel'd beneath Me Chapter 1. Doctors' Bodies: Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Patient Malingering Chapter 2. Dead Bodies: Mourning Fictions and the Corporeity of Heaven Chapter 3. Sanitized Bodies: The United States Sanitary Commission and Soul-Sickness Chapter 4. Experimental Bodies: African American Writers and the Rehabilitation of War Work Chapter 5. Soldiers' Bodies: Historical Fictions and the Sickness of Battle Chapter 6. Nursing Bodies: Civil War Women and Postbellum Regeneration Chapter 7. Historical Bodies: African American Scholars and the Discipline of History Epilogue. Conjuring Civil War Bodies Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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