This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War

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This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War
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death and the American Civil War
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Drew Gilpin Faust
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Language
eng
Summary
An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. This book explores the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. Historian Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and its understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. She describes how survivors mourned and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God, and reconceived its understanding of life after death.--From publisher description
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DLC
Dewey number
973.7/1
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
E468.9
LC item number
.F385 2008
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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