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Death and the American Civil War
Vintage
January 2009
On Sale: January 6, 2009
368 pages
ISBN: 0375703837
EAN: 9780375703836
Kindle: B000YJ53O0
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Non-Fiction History
More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American
Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population
would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering,
Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a
scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the
nation, describing how the survivors managed on a practical
level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to
reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a
benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and
their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets,
surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together
to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most
fundamental and widely shared reality.
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