This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust.

1st Vintage Civil War library ed.

9780375703836 (pbk.)
0375703837 (pbk.)

New York : Vintage Books, 2009.

English

xviii, 346 p. : ill., ports ; 21 cm.

E468.9 .F385 2009

973.7/1

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vintage Civil War library.

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