1863

Amputation (“empty sleeve”) as badge of honor in Confederacy. Stonewall Jackson’s loses his left arm during Battle of Chancellorsville in May and terms his missing limb a blessing. This set tone for society’s coming to see an empty sleeve as a symbol of worthy sacrifice for the Confederacy, not a mark of shattered masculinity; “no amputation in the Confederacy did more to commend amputees to the public” (B. Miller, 63-64).