This Republic of Suffering
Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)
by Drew Gilpin Faust
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appears in American Civil War, American History, and American History.
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 reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing how the survivors managed on a practical le...
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appears in American Civil War, American History, and American History.
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