This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust.
Faust, Drew Gilpin.
2009
E468.9 .F385 2009 (Mapit)
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Title This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust.
Author Faust, Drew Gilpin.
Edition 1st Vintage Civil War library ed.
ISBN 9780375703836 (pbk.)
0375703837 (pbk.)
Imprint New York : Vintage Books, 2009.
Language English
Description xviii, 346 p. : ill., ports ; 21 cm.
Call Number E468.9 .F385 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.7/1
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Vintage Civil War library.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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The work of death
Dying: to lay down my life
Killing: the harder courage
Burying: new lessons caring for the dead
Naming: the significant word unknown
Realizing: civilians and the work of mourning
Believing and doubting: what means this carnage?
Accounting: our obligations to the dead
Numbering: how many? how many?
Epilogue: surviving.

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