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Also by Drew Gilpin Faust:

This Republic Of Suffering, January 2009
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This Republic of Suffering, September 2008
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This Republic of Suffering, January 2008
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This Republic Of Suffering
Drew Gilpin Faust

Death and the American Civil War

Vintage
January 2009
On Sale: January 6, 2009
368 pages
ISBN: 0375703837
EAN: 9780375703836
Kindle: B000YJ53O0
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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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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