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  <about><![CDATA[Thomas P. Lowry is a retired psychiatrist and associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco. He is the author of <em>Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools: Courts-Martial of Civil War Union Colonels</em>, available in a Bison Books edition, and <em>The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in the Civil War</em>.]]></about>
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    <![CDATA[The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War]]>
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    <![CDATA[A study of the sexual activities of Civil War soldiers away from   home relates their participation in prostitution, birth control,   marriages, homosexuality, pornography, and others as revealed in   letters, diaries, and photos. National ad/promo.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;One of the greatest challenges faced by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis on their 1804&#8211;6 Corps of Discovery expedition was that of medical emergencies on the trail. Without an attending physician, even routine ailments and injuries could have tragic consequences for the expedition&#8217;s success and the safety of its members. Of these dangers, the most insidious and potentially devastating was the slow, painful, and oftentimes fatal ravage of venereal disease.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Physician Thomas P. Lowry delves into the world of nineteenth-century medicine, uncovering the expedition&#8217;s very real fear of venereal disease. Lewis and Clark knew they were unlikely to prevent their men from forming sexual liaisons on the trail, so they prepared for the consequences of encounters with potentially infected people, as well as the consequences of preexisting disease, by stocking themselves with medicine and the latest scientific knowledge from the best minds in America. Lewis and Clark&#8217;s expedition encountered Native peoples who experienced venereal disease as a result of liaisons with French, British, Spanish, and Canadian travelers and had their own methods for curing its victims, or at least for easing the pain it inflicted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lowry&#8217;s careful study of the explorers&#8217; journals sheds new light on this neglected aspect of the expedition, showing in detail how sex and venereal disease affected the men and their mission, and describes how diverse peoples faced a common threat with the best knowledge and tools at their disposal.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Attack on Taranto: Blueprint for Pearl Harbor]]>
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    <![CDATA[This is a close study of the little-known attack in November 1940, by British carrier-based planes on the Italian fleet at Taranto. This was a successful raid, in which the Italian fleet was put out of World War II, the raid was studied by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and served as a textbook case for surprise and swift devastation.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Tarnished Scalpels: The Court-Martials of Fifty Union Surgeons]]>
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    <![CDATA[Foreword by Robert K. Kric, 8 b/w photos  6 x 9 &quot;Amid the flood of Civil War books that washes over us each year, Dr. Thomas Lowry's works have long stood out for their brilliant research, originality, and insight. Now, with his accomplished co-author Dr. Jack Welsh, he has produced a work as fascinating to the average reader as it is useful to the specialist. Tarnished Scalpels offers us a richer portrait of our greatest war's reality than could any other ten books on the subject. These are tales of folly, fear, and shame, well told by men who understand both medicine and good writing.&quot; -Owen Parry, author of Faded Coat Of Blue As in his previous book, Tarnished Eagles (0-8117-1597-3), Thomas Lowry-this time with Jack Welsh-brings to light the various misdeeds of Union officers. In this new book, the authors examine the relationship between the principles of the medical profession and the often byzantine regulations of the army. As a result, the courts-martial in this book primarily fall into two categories: failure to practice proper medicine and failure to follow the procedures and administrative rules that govern army life, with some overlap. As usual, Lowry peppers many of these accounts with his dry wit, but he also offers penetrating analyses of the problems faced by many of these doctors, who often were forced to work under intolerable conditions. Thomas Lowry, a retired psychiatrist, is the author of several books on the Civil War, including the controversial The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War (0-8117-1515-9). Jack D. Welsh, professor of medicine emeritus at University of Oklahoma, has written for and edited many medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine. He is also the author of Medical Histories of Confederate Generals and Medical Histories of Union Generals.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War]]>
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    <![CDATA[A study of the sexual activities of Civil War soldiers away from   home relates their participation in prostitution, birth control,   marriages, homosexuality, pornography, and others as revealed in   letters, diaries, and photos. National ad/promo.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice]]>
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    <![CDATA[From 1861 through 1865, southern women fought a war within a war.  While most of their efforts involved activities such as rolling bandages and organizing charity fairs, many women in the Confederacy, particularly in border states, challenged Federal authority in more direct ways: smuggling maps, medicine, and munitions; aiding deserters; spying; feeding Confederate bushwhackers; cutting Federal telegraph wires.  Thomas P. Lowry's investigation into some 75,000 Federal courts-martial&#151;uncovered in National Archives files and mostly unexamined since the Civil War&#151;brings to light women caught up in the inexorable Unionist judicial machinery.  Their stories, published here for the first time, often in first-person testimony, compose a remarkable picture of courage and resourcefulness in the face of social, military, and legal constraints. Lowry focuses on 120 women who were convicted of war-related offenses against the U.S. army or government.  The court records tell of unusual pluck and bravado among women ranging from plantation elites and city dwellers to impoverished individuals from the margins of southern society.  Their crimes included spying and smuggling, desecrating the U.S. flag, participating in invalid marriages to Union soldiers, and managing brothels in which Federal soldiers contracted venereal diseases.  Rarest, and perhaps most intriguing of all, are cases in which women took part in armed robberies dressed as men or they concealed documents inside their bodies. Many of the convicts spent time in the little-known Fitchburg Female Prison in Massachusetts. At long last giving these women their place in the pages of history, Lowry shows them striking&#151;and receiving&#151;a blow for the Confederate cause, against the conventions of passive femininity. Confederate Heroines brings a new and surprising perspective on the conduct of the Civil War. AUTHOR BIO: Thomas P. Lowry is the author of seven previous books, including Don't Shoot That Boy: Lincoln and Military Justice and Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He is a retired psychiatrist and lives in Woodbridge, Virginia.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Clitoris]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1976</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Sexual Misbehavior in the Civil War: A Compendium]]>
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    <![CDATA[Over three million young men left home, shouldered rifles, and set about killing one another in the 1860s. Behind, they left wives and sweethearts. The 50,000 books about the war have told us in meticulous detail about the strategy, tactics, weapons, uniforms, canteens, famous generals, religious beliefs, personality quirks, fortifications, battles, sieges, gunboats, medical care, and recruiting policies. The causes of the war have been endlessly analyzed. The surviving veterans wrote hundreds of memoirs, sometimes inflating their own heroism and importance. 	What rarely appears in this literature is any mention of sex, in spite of most soldiers being in their early twenties, a time of manly vigor. The late 19th century brought the ascendancy of Victorian prudishness and hypocrisy. The Comstock laws sent men to prison for mailing contraceptive advice. Just advice! Whatever willingness there might have been to reveal wartime hanky-panky evaporated in the tenor of the time and the admiring gaze of the veteran's growing grandchildren. The following scene would be unimaginable: the old veteran sits by the stove in the country store. His long white beard covers his tattered vest. A faded medal graces his chest. On the floor are the shavings from his most recent whittling. A tiny child pipes up: &quot;Tell us about the war, grandpa.&quot; &quot;Well, Jimmy, there was this pretty little whore in Memphis.&quot; Never happen. Material collected twenty years ago resulted in the author's 1994 book, The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell - Sex in the Civil War, which presented everything that was then known on the subject. There had been no previous book on Civil War sex. Since then, the author and his wife, Beverly, have read over 90,000 court-martials and countless letters and diary entries. What emerges is that sexual activity was far more common and public than our previous research or any memoir had ever revealed. The records come from literally every corner of the country: Key West, Washington Territory, Los Angeles, and Maine. The malfeasants are both officers and enlisted men. The victims range from six-year girls to sixty-year old grandmothers. The soldiers carried with them lewd books and obscene photos. Even more striking is the universality of houses of prostitution. Every village and every city neighborhood has at least one such-and everybody knew it. They knew the addresses of the houses. They knew the names of the madams and the names of many of the &quot;girls.&quot; Most of the witnesses for the trials had visited the houses, for the usual reasons. The military police tramped through the houses, looking for deserters. Rape, thought to be rare during the war, was not that rare. An unexpected finding was that Union soldiers, who were supposedly freeing the slaves, were quick to rape black women. An even more surprising finding was that the Confederate army had a policy of not prosecuting rapists, whether the victim was black or white. The inventor of the Graham cracker had, in 1834, written a book claiming that masturbation caused severe illness, even death. This idea had taken root in the medical profession and many army doctors testified that a defendant was not guilty because of &quot;insanity from self-abuse.&quot; The Union army's largest hospital listed dozens men, dead from &quot;masturbation.&quot; The famous ship Monitor had a thick iron turret. In other such ships, the sound-proof turret proved a convenient place for old sailors to rape young boys. A Union cavalry colonel was tried for sexually assaulted both men and women. Evidence for Civil War homosexuality was unknown until now. Even more astonishing stories appear in the records: sex with horses, sheep, even with chickens and turkeys. There are records of obscene tattoos, foul cursing by Winfield Scott Hancock, black and white mistresses of Confederate generals, even many records of &quot;fornication and bastardy&quot; in the little village of Gettysburg. Ads for abortion clinics appeared on the front pages of newspaper]]>
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  <id type="integer">7173328</id>
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    <![CDATA[Love and Lust: Private and Amorous Letters of the Civil War]]>
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    <![CDATA[Tens of thousands of Civil War letters still exist, mostly asking about family health, and telling of long marches, sore feet, bad food, diarrhea, malaria, and the occasional battle. Largely lost are those letters telling of physical love, of the private moments of amorous life. Yet some letters have survived, speaking vividly and unashamedly of pre-war passionate embraces, wartime longings for absent lovers, and hope for blissful reunions in the marital bed. One soldier wrote of looking forward to bondage and disciple games in the bedroom, wearing their “favorite uniform” – bare skin. Another man wrote to his wife begging her to write him sexually explicit letters, telling her how much he would treasure such words. A Rhode Island infantryman wrote a few passionate pages, then noted his physical arousal and changed the subject. Single young men, without wives or regular sweethearts, corresponded at length, comparing the prostitutes of Maine, New York, Washington, DC, and Louisiana, and adding cautionary notes about syphilis, gonorrhea, and the painful treatments therefore. One man, home on disability leave, had recovered enough to make daily efforts to seduce every girl he met.  A Nashville prostitute cut her hair and joined a Michigan regiment. The mails were flooded with ads for pornographic novels, images, and devices. Another man, perhaps overlooked by the postman, wrote home asking for some “fancy” reading material to revive his dormant sexual feelings. The mail also contained hundreds of family letters of far grimmer content: children dying of diphtheria, measles, smallpox, and tuberculosis, and families turned out in the snow for inability to pay the rent. Some soldiers were sentenced to death for going home to help their starving families. Other letters and court documents tell of a great cavalcade of human mischief, error, misery, and poor judgment. A young girl is sent to prison for incest with her father. A married woman is sued for libel after she claimed a neighbor had offered her “nine pence” to lie with him. A justice of the peace ordered the sheriff to arrest two men for “getting bastards” upon two women.   Civil War issues did include battles, politics, and slavery, but there was also a another aspect of life, never mentioned in high school textbooks, of love, lust, venereal disease, incest, abortion, contraception, and harsh language. Even obscene graffiti, written on the walls of Southern mansions, imitated the “art” found in high school bathrooms today. The author’s book, fully referenced and annotated, brings these documents and images, verbatim and uncensored, to a public that would like to know what life was really like in mid-Victorian America.]]>
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    <![CDATA[From Andersonville to Tahiti: The Dorence Atwater Story]]>
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    <![CDATA[A true life story, which no book has presented before, of a poor soldier who plumbed the depths of misery, became a national hero, was punished for his good deeds, and ended as a wealthy man, married to a Polynesian princess. Twelve thousand Union men died in Andersonville prison. Atwater kept a secret list of the 12,000 dead, hidden in his coat lining. He knew that when the war ended, the families of the dead would want to know what happened to their loved ones. When he returned home, a copy was made of the list. The army bureaucrats refused to publish either copy and put Atwater in prison when he kept one copy hidden. Though weak from starvation, malaria, and diphtheria, he was put to hard labor when not in his cell. From this almost fatal low point he rose to unimaginable heights. At the end of his life he was embraced by a Royal family, proprietor of coffee, citrus, and sugar plantations, owner of a fleet of pearl schooners, and, with famous author Robert Louis Stevenson, co-owner of a steamship line. His life was one of astonishing triumphs and setbacks. His most precious possession vanished in the great San Francisco earthquake and fire. His wife's Tahiti home was blown up by German armored cruisers in 1914. His remarkable circle of friends included Red Cross founder Clara Barton, crusading editor Horace Greeley, and litterateur Henry Adams. An 8,000 pound cannon marks Atwater's memorial in Connecticut. His story is no fairy tale, but rests entirely on original documents and old photographs, in a narrative dramatically told.]]>
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