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Drew Gilpin Faust’s Landmark: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Turns 15 - The Journal of the Civil War Era
In 1866, while surveying former Confederate landscapes, Edmund Whitman observed that the “entire country over which the war has extended, . . . composes one vast charnel house of the dead.”[1] Although southerners were mostly the denizens living inside that veritable “house of the dead,” Drew Gilpin Faust has produced an intellectual history of Civil … Read More Read More
