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The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War. Thomas P. Lowry, M.D. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1994. $19.95 cloth.
Very few people link the subjects of sex and the American Civil War, despite the fact that wartime mobilizations raise numerous gender and personal issues. In The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War, Dr. Thomas P. Lowry, a one-time staff member of the Masters and Johnson Clinic, links the two issues and produces an informative work about the private lives of soldiers and other Americans during the Civil War era.
The sexual history of the Civil War is a hidden one, according to Lowry. Due to Victorian morality and the intensely personal nature of the subject, soldiers and other Americans seldom discussed the topic in their letters, diaries, and...