Suicide, alcoholism, and psychiatric illness among union forces during the U.S. Civil War

摘要: Abstract Little is known about post-combat psychological reactions of warriors prior to the Twentieth Century. We estimated rates suicide, alcohol abuse, and probable psychiatric illness among Union Forces during U.S. Civil War via examination data compiled by Army. White active-duty military personnel suicide ranged from 8.74 14.54 per 100,000 war, surged 30.4 year after war. For blacks, 17.7 in first their entry into war (1863), 0 second year, 1.8 Rates for most other relevant domains, including chronic alcoholism, “nostalgia,” insanity, were extremely low (