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- Title
The Gruesome Case of Henry Eells: Grave-robbing, Dissection, and Race in the Wartime South.
- Authors
Cashin, Joan
- Abstract
The article discusses 19th century U.S. Army steward Samuel Henry Eells. According to the article, Eells became interested in the African American population near Middleburg, Tennessee, and his belief that African Americans were prone to pulmonary disease. The article states that Eells and some of his associates disinterred several African American corpses from a graveyard in Bolivar, Tennessee for dissection and study. The article also discusses Eells's career in medicine and his service in the U.S. Civil War, his racial prejudice, and his views on white southerners.
- Subjects
BOLIVAR (Tenn.); EELLS, Samuel Henry; DEAD; GRAVE robbing; LUNG diseases; PREJUDICES; EXHUMATION; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Civil War Medicine, 2014, Vol 18, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
1545-4975
- Publication type
Article