Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War (Robert D. Hicks - BH) Atkinson Two Cardinals preparing the nest

Two Cardinals preparing the nest is the theme of the Cardinals Nesting Wind Chime

By late 1862

Army of the Potomac

untimely death in 1865

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War

Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War (Robert D. Hicks - BH) Atkinson Two Cardinals preparing the nestby Robert D. Hicks Most histories of wounded Civil War veterans construe them as feminized men whose manhood has suffered due to their inability to provide for and raise families or engage in business. Wounded for Life complicates this picture by examining how seven veteranssix soldiers and one physiciancoped with their changed bodies in their postwar lives. Through these intimate stories, author Robert D. Hicks looks at the veteran's body as shaped