Sommerville, Diane Miller, <br/><br/>
Aberration of mind :  suicide and suffering in the Civil War-era South / 
Diane Miller Sommerville. 
 - 1 online resource (447 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide. 
<br/><br/> This book studies the meaning of suicide in the nineteenth-century South and how that meaning changed, if at all, as a result of the Civil War and its aftermath. It looks at the whole South while providing a more thorough examination than previous books of the dynamics of both the racial and gendered dimensions of suicide in the South during the long Civil War Era. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469643571 (e-book) 9781469643588 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Suicide--History--Southern States--19th century.<br/>Suicide--Social aspects--History--Southern States--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Psychological aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865<br/>Southern States--Social conditions--History--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV6548.U52  / .S666 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.280975/09034