This new hardback This Republic of Suffering Death and The American Civil War is a story of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, and nurses, of northerners and southerners, slaveholders and freedpeople, of the most exalted and the most humble are brought together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. Hardcover Author: Drew Gilplin Faust 346 Pages Includes sections of: Preface, Notes, and Index |
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