Invisible Wounds–Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers Livestream

Explore the effects of military service and combat on Civil War Soldiers

Join us on Thursday, June 30 at 1:00 PM on Facebook for a livestream hosted by the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. You can tune in by visiting facebook.com/CivilWarMed at the scheduled time.

Director of Education John Lustrea will talk with author Dillon J. Carroll about his book Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers. The book examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers—Black and white, North and South. Soldiers faced harsh military discipline, arduous marches, poor rations, debilitating diseases, and the terror of battle, all of which took a severe psychological toll.

Dillon J. Carroll is a history instructor at Butte College in Oroville, California. He holds a doctorate in history from the University of Georgia.

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