@article{335118,
      recid = {335118},
      author = {Faust, Drew Gilpin.},
      title = {This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil  War /},
      publisher = {Vintage Books,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xviii, 346 p. :},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {A study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning  and practicalities of death in the face of the carnage of  the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000  soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of  today's population would be six million. This book explores  the impact of this death toll from every angle: material,  political, intellectual, and spiritual. Historian Faust  delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives  but the life of the nation and its understanding of the  rights and responsibilities of citizenship. She describes  how survivors mourned and how a deeply religious culture  struggled to reconcile the slaughter with its belief in a  benevolent God, and reconceived its understanding of life  after death.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/335118},
}