With its charismatic leader George Custer and its memorable
encounters with Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little
Bighorn, the Seventh Cavalry serves as the iconic regiment in the
post-Civil War U.S Army. Voluminous written documentation as well
as archaeological and osteological research suggest that the
soldiers of the Seventh represented a cross section of the men who
joined the army as a whole at the time. In Health of the Seventh
Cavalry, editors P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott and their
co-contributors - experts in history, medicine, human biology,
epidemiology, and human osteology - examine the Seventh's medical
records to determine the health of the nineteenth-century U.S.
Army, and the prevalence and treatment of the numerous conditions
that plagued soldiers during the Indian Wars. Building on previous
comparisons of archaeological evidence and medical records, Willey
and Scott follow multiple lines of inquiry to assess the health of
the Seventh, from its organization in 1866 to its 1884 station on
the Northern Great Plains. Pairing general overviews of nineteenth-
and twentieth-century health care with essays on malaria, injuries,
post-traumatic stress disorder, and other specific ailments, Health
of the Seventh Cavalry provides fresh insights into the health,
disease, and trauma that the regiment experienced over two decades.
More than 100 tables, graphs, and maps track the troops' illnesses
and diseases by month, season, year, and location, as well as their
stress periods, desertions, and deaths. A glossary of medical terms
rounds out the volume. As an ideal exemplar of regiments of its
time, the Seventh Cavalry affords scholars and enthusiasts a better
understanding of nineteenth-century health and medicine. This
volume reveals the struggles that the post-Civil War Seventh, and
the entire U.S. Army, faced on the battlefield and elsewhere.
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