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Alcott, Louisa May. Hospital Sketches. Boston: James Redpath, 1863.  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/alcott/sketches/sketches.html.

Arthur, T.S. “The Soldier’s Letter.” Peterson’s Magazine, March 1863.

Barnes, Joseph K. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1870.  https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-14121350R-mvset.

Boyd, Cyrus F. The Civil War Diary of Cyrus F. Boyd, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, 1861-1863. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint Co., 1977.

Boynton, H.V. “Fraudulent Practices of Pension-Sharks; Uselessness of Pension-Attorneys.” Harper’s Weekly, March 5, 1898.

Brinton, John H. Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton, Major and Surgeon U. S. V., 1861-1865. New York: The Neale publishing company, 1914.

Casselman, A. B. “An Inside View of the Pension Bureau.” The Century; a Popular Quarterly, May 1898.

“Consolidation Act of 1873.” In Statutes at Large, 42nd Congress, 17:566–77. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1873. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=017/llsl017.db&recNum=607.

“Dependent Pension Act of 1890.” In Statutes at Large, 51st Congress, 26:182–83. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1890. http://books.google.com/books?id=fWQ2AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=u.s.+statutes+at+large+volume+26&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NoRlU8_IBObEsATS7oH4Cg&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false.

Douglass, Darwin DeForrest. The Douglass Patent Artificial Limbs. Springfield, Mass.: Bowles & Co., 1865. https://archive.org/details/65140480R.nlm.nih.gov.

Foote, A.R. “Degradation by Pensions.” The Forum, December 1891.

Frank Leslie’s Scenes and Portraits of the Civil War. New York: Mrs. Frank Leslie, 1894. https://archive.org/details/franklesliesscen00lesl.

“General Pension Act of 1862.” In Statutes at Large, 37th Congress, 12:566–69. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1862. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=012/llsl012.db&recNum=597.

George R. Fuller Co. The Making of a Man: Being a Description of Artificial Limbs and How They May Be Adopted by Those Who Have Suffered Loss of Their Natural Limbs. Rochester, N.Y.: George R. Fuller Co., 1902.  https://archive.org/details/makingofmanbeing00geor.

“Home-Sickness as a Malady.” Scientific American, April 2, 1864.

Howe, Mark De Wolfe, ed. Touched with Fire: Civil War Letters and Diary of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1861-1864. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.

Hudson, Erasmus Darwin. Artificial Limbs for the United States Army and Navy : Per Commission of Surgeon-General, U.S.A. United States: s.n., 1865. https://archive.org/details/101465796.nlm.nih.gov.

“Invalid Corp Music Lyrics,” n.d. http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/Evans?p_action=doc&p_topdoc=1&p_docnum=1&p_sort=YMD_date:D&p_product=EAIX&p_text_direct-0=document_id=(%2010F453B3B77D0C30%20)&p_docid=10F453B3B77D0C30&p_theme=eaidoc&p_queryname=10F453B3B77D0C30&f_openurl=yes&p_nbid=Y50W43MBMTM4OTczODMzNS4zMjQ3MTE6MToxMDoxNTguNjUuMC4w&.

Invalid Corps! U.S.A. Recruits Wanted, Garrison and Light Duty. Only Those Soldiers Who Have Been Honorably Discharged, on Account of Wounds or Disability Received in the Service, Will Be Enlisted in the Corps of Honor! [Poster]. n.d. Poster. New-York Historical Society. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/cwnyhs:@field(DOCID+@lit(ac03114)).

Jewett’s Patent Artificial Leg Company. Surgical Appliances of Every Description for Resections of the Shoulder, Arm, Elbow Joint, and Fore-Arm: Also for Ununited Fractures, Arms, Hands, and Feet. Washington, D.C.: McGill & Witherow, 1865. https://archive.org/details/101190685.nlm.nih.gov.

Keen, William W., S. Weir Mitchell, and George R. Morehouse. “On Malingering, Especially in Regard to Simulation of Diseases of the Nervous System.” The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 47, no. 96 (October 1864): 367–94.

“Letters Received from Dorothea Dix, 1858 – 1868,” n.d. Record Group 418, Entry 25. National Archives, Washington, D.C. http://research.archives.gov/description/2645430.

Marks, Amasa Abraham. Marks’ Patent Artificial Limbs, With India Rubber Hands and Feet. New York: William B. Smyth, Job and Card Printer, 1867. https://archive.org/details/100959912.nlm.nih.gov.

Marks, George E. A Treatise on Artificial Limbs with Rubber Hands and Feet. New York: A.A. Marks, 1901. https://archive.org/details/treatiseonartif00mark.

Meacham, Henry H. The Empty Sleeve: Or the Life and Hardships of Henry H. Meacham in the Union Army. Springfield, Mass., 1869. https://archive.org/details/emptysleeveorlif00meac.

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Mitchell, S. Weir. In War Time. New York: The Century Co., 1903.

———. “The Case of George Dedlow.” The Atlantic Monthly,   https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1866/07/the-case-of-george-dedlow/308771/.

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Mitchell, S. Weir, George R. Morehouse, and William W. Keen. Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1864.

Moore, Frank, ed. Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South. 1860-1865. New York: Publication Office, Bible House, 1867. http://0-firstsearch.oclc.org.ksclib.keene.edu/WebZ/FSPage?pagetype=return_frameset:sessionid=fsapp5-52906-ile454hn-kwsxgz:entitypagenum=6:0:entityframedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.loc.gov%2Floc.gdc%2Fscd0001.00019586959:entityframedtitle=WorldCat:entityframedtimeout=30:entityopenTitle=:entityopenAuthor=:entityopenNumber=:

“Nichols, Chas. H. – District of Columbia – Superintendent – Government Hospital for the Insane – [Also Includes File of Charges against Him],” n.d. Record Group 48. National Archives at College Park. http://research.archives.gov/description/5903593.

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Ordronauz, John. Report to the U.S. Sanitary Commission. On a System for the Economical Relief of Disabled Soldiers, and on Certain Proposed Amendments to Our Present Pension Laws. New York: Sanford, Harroun & Co., 1864. https://ia600504.us.archive.org/0/items/reporttoussanita00ordr/reporttoussanita00ordr.pdf.

Palmer, Benjamin Franklin. The Palmer Arm and Leg: Adopted for the U.S. Army and Navy by the Surgeon-General, U.S.A., and by the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery : Manufactured Only Under the Direction of the Inventor and Patentee. Philadelphia: American Artificial Limb Company, 1865. https://archive.org/details/101462403.nlm.nih.gov.

———. Will the American Government Present an Artificial Arm (Not a “Clutch”) to the Mutilated American Soldier?: Petition of Three Hundred Soldiers. Philadelphia, 1863. https://archive.org/details/101224473.nlm.nih.gov.

Pelka, Fred, ed. The Civil War Letters of Charles F. Johnson, Invalid Corps. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004.

Raum, Green B. “Pensions and Patriotism.” The North American Review 153, no. 417 (August 1891): 205–14.

“Records Concerning Admissions to the Government Hospital for the Insane,” n.d. Record Group 48. National Archives at College Park. http://research.archives.gov/description/820174.

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“Result of Appointing a Veteran as Postmaster.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, February 11, 1865.

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Sloane, William M. “Pensions and Socialism.” The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, June 1891.  http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/detail.html?id=2971&page=all.

Stille, Charles. History of the United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1866. http://archive.org/details/historyofuniteds00stiluoft.

Tanner, David B. “Our Limbs Are Lost! Our Country Saved!”: A Short Sketch of the Service and Sacrifices of David B. Tanner. Boston: J. D. Flagg & Co., 1870. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.0029785205A.

The Sanitary Commission of the United States Army: A Succinct Narrative of Its Works and Purposes. New York: United States Sanitary Commission, 1864. https://archive.org/details/sanitarycommissi00unit.

Wilder, Frank. The Invalid Corps. 1863. Music score. http://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200002281.

“Work for the Disabled Soldier.” New York Times, January 23, 1865.

 

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