Hardcover, 368 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2008 by Knopf.
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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 describes 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.
Subjects
- Death And Dying (Sociological Aspects)
- U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877)
- History
- History - Military / War
- History: American
- Death & Dying
- United States - Civil War
- History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Military - United States
- 19th century
- Burial
- Death
- Psychological aspects
- Social aspects
- United States