This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

This Republic of Suffering

Death and the American Civil War

By
Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust
2008 • 346 pages

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Assesses the impact of the enormous carnage of the Civil War on every aspect of American life from a material, political, intellectual, cultural, social, and spiritual perspective.

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