In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and
Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental
conditions - strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and
mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat
- which contributed to escalating disease and diminished morale.
Using soldiers' letters, diaries, and memoirs, plus a wealth of
additional personal accounts, medical sources, newspapers, and
government documents, Kathryn Shively Meier reveals how these
soldiers strove to maintain their physical and mental health by
combating their deadliest enemy - nature. Meier explores how
soldiers forged informal networks of health care based on prewar
civilian experience and adopted a universal set of self-care
habits, including boiling water, altering camp terrain, eradicating
insects, supplementing their diets with fruits and vegetables,
constructing protective shelters, and most controversially,
straggling. In order to improve their health, soldiers periodically
had to adjust their ideas of manliness, class values, and race to
the circumstances at hand. While self-care often proved superior to
relying upon the inchoate military medical infrastructure,
commanders chastised soldiers for testing army discipline,
ultimately redrawing the boundaries of informal health care.
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