Civilians and Civil War Battlefields

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., ‘My Hunt After “The Captain,”’ Atlantic Monthly, 10, 62 (December 1862) pp.738-764.

http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=atla;cc=atla;rgn=full%20text;idno=atla0010-6;didno=atla0010-6;view=image;seq=0744;node=atla0010-6%3A10

For another example of a civilian searching for a relative on the battlefield, see Belle Z. Spencer, ‘From a Soldier’s Wife,’ Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 26, Issue 173 (October 1864) pp. 622-629, which recounts the author’s search for her husband in the aftermath of Shiloh.

http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=harp;cc=harp;rgn=full%20text;idno=harp0029-5;didno=harp0029-5;view=image;seq=0632;node=harp0029-5%3A11

Civil War Wounding

U.S. National Library of Medicine: ‘Reconstructing State and Soldier: Disability and the American Civil War’ (by Susan-Mary Grant)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/lifeandlimb/education/highereducation/reconstructingstate.html

Alcott, Louisa May, Hospital Sketches (Boston: James Redpath, 1863)

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/alcott/sketches/sketches.html

Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage, 1895

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/73/73-h/73-h.htm

Holmes’ Philosophical Context

Herbert Spencer, Social Statics (1851)

http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/spencer-social-statics-1851

William James, The Will to Believe (1896)

http://educ.jmu.edu//~omearawm/ph101willtobelieve.html

The Gilded Age and Progressive Eras

Ida M. Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904)

http://www.pagetutor.com/standard/index.html

Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (1904)

https://archive.org/details/shameofcities00stefuoft

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)

https://archive.org/details/ost-english-thejungle00sincuoft

Eugenics

Buck v. Bell in the Encyclopedia Virginia

http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Buck_v_Bell_1927

‘Eugenics: Compulsory Sterilization in 50 American States,’ research site by Lutz Kaelber, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Vermont

http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/