The Civil War Letters of Colonel Charles F. Johnson, Invalid Corps
Civil War historians and others will value this book. It provides a fascinating and insightful introduction to the disabled soldiers of the Civil War era, and presents the first analysis of the Invalid Corps and the twists and turns of its history. Fred Pelka performs a great service by calling long-overdue attention to the experience of those who served in this unit.(John David Smith, editor of Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era)This collection should be of interest not only to Civil War historians, nineteenth-century Americanists, and disability historians, but also to historians of gender relations and to family and marriage historians. Readable as Johnson's letters are, the book should appeal to general readers as well.(Paul K. Longmore, coeditor of The New Disability History: American Perspectives)This fascinating collection is a welcome addition to the growing list of published Civil War correspondence.(Civil War History)Historians of the VRC will benefit from an examination of these letters.(Indiana Magazine of History)