GDG- Now: CW PTSD was: Custer: G'burg, LBH & Philbrick

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Good post.  Thank you.
 
"Just  the facts, ma'am." 

Your Most Obediant Servant
Peter  

 
In a message dated 1/21/2012 9:03:53 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
bspeer at compassnet.com writes:

Esteemed  GDG Member Contributes:
In research for my book: Broomstick to  Battlefields: After the Battle the
Story of Henry Clay Robinett, at first  it was quite clear to me that he
suffered from PTSD.  I met with  numerous Army psychologists & psychiatrists
and they drew quite a few  interesting conclusions from the evidence (we 
have
numerous letters from  Robinett written both during and after the war).  He
was a victim of  Mild Traumatic Brain Injury from a head wound at the battle
of  Corinth.  This is also one of the symptoms our soldiers exhibit  today
from IEDs.  He also exhibited numerous PTSD symptoms.   Their conclusions
were fascinating; what they could extrapolate from his  letters and actions
was quite startling.   My book goes into  great detail on this and to 
explain
Robinett's actions. 

There is a  study that looks at both Vietnam and the Civil War related to
this topic:  Dean, Eric T. Jr. Shook Over Hell Post-Traumatic Stress:
Vietnam, and the  Civil War.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press,  1997.

Bill

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Subject: GDG- Now: CW PTSD was: Custer: G'burg, LBH  & Philbrick

Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


In a  message dated 1/20/2012 9:45:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,   
tbarrett21 at cox.net writes:

I'm not  familiar with anything  like a serious study of PTSD in the  
post-CW
period.  If anybody  knows of one, I, for one would be  interested.


Anything I have  seen is just bits and pieces in various books on wider  
topics.   But I am certain there is a gold mine of information in material
from  
post-war veterans organizations.  I am somewhat familiar with what  was  
published by the organization for Veterans of the Fourteenth  Connecticut  
Infantry, and tucked away in their "newsletters" and  obituary notices are  
glimpses of various men whose lives never  really came back together after
the  
war, unable to hold  responsible jobs, restless, wandering.

Bruce  Trinque
Amston,  CT
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