This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust

346 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 proporti...

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