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While reading this chapter, I was constantly left thinking about the effects of the then-unheard-of PTSD. Surely these men had to be coming back with all sorts of horrific memories from the war, and on top of all this, had to attempt to return to their roles and breadwinners, providers and caregivers? I can't imagine having to deal with the nightmares, memories, etc of war on top of re-assimilating into post-war life. Count me out. -Cash | While reading this chapter, I was constantly left thinking about the effects of the then-unheard-of PTSD. Surely these men had to be coming back with all sorts of horrific memories from the war, and on top of all this, had to attempt to return to their roles and breadwinners, providers and caregivers? I can't imagine having to deal with the nightmares, memories, etc of war on top of re-assimilating into post-war life. Count me out. -Cash | ||
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| + | It seems to me that an interesting theme of this chapter was that while Confederate soldiers and southern white males felt they had lost their sovereignty at the hands of the north, it was their wives whose "hard-bought qualities acquired in the war effort" enabled the ability to accept loss and to carry on. Although this was not always the case, as it may seem almost impossible for a wife to have lost half her family to the war and then be the last emotional strand a southern family could hold on to at the end of the war. --Joe C. | ||
== Chapter 6 == | == Chapter 6 == | ||
