This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War | Drew Gilpin Faust

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War | Drew Gilpin Faust | Informative & Well Researched

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	This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Drew Gilpin Faust Knopf, 2008 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 54 reviews view larger image
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Insightful and Astonishing

The book reveals the author's amazing amount of research into an aspect of the Civil War that has been largely overlooked -- how did the soldier in the field, the families at home, and the nation as a whole deal with the unimaginable amount of death during and after the war? Indeed, the book argues it was in no small part the necessity of dealing with the physical, emotional, and moral contexts of coping with the carnage that has shaped the nation's understandings of war's sacrifice and honoring the dead ever since. Astonishing conceptual insights arise out of the innumerable concrete descriptions based on source materials.

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Informative & Well Researched

These are the horrors of the Civil War that they didn't teach us in high school. I had a difficult time getting thru the first chapter of this book but stuck with it and am really glad I did.

Highly recommended for anyone interested in studying the Civil War.

Forgotten suffering

Even in a family where one has repeatedly heard passed-down tales of the suffering of long-dead ancestors during the American Civil War, it is easy to relegate these stories to the realm of the irrelevant and/or the quaint. Drew Gilpin Faust's book brings home sharply and vividly the painful changes, losses, and grief our forebearers experienced. Citing even a few statistics from the book will serve to illustrate the universality of the pain of the time.

1. An estimated 620,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died between 1861-1865.
2. In Winchester,Va. the Stonewall Cemetary for 2,494 Confederate dead gathered from about 15 miles around the town contained 829 unknown soldiers buried in a single mound.
3. Estimates of civilian deaths from war-related causes are about 50,000.

To read this book is to understand a seldom-examined part of the American experience. This is a book every American should read.

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This Republic Of Suffering

I found this book to be very interesting & informative & very well written. It left nothing to the imagination, nothing to question about this time in our history. I am intrigued with the Civl War & Abraham Lincoln is my favorite president. I found it most interesting the way individuals serving in the war & those left behind handled the preparing for death. Also interesting how those serving helped alleviate the pain for those at home, in helping them to understand their loved ones last moments. It was amazing how the soldiers tried to take care of each other & pass on info even to the point of going out of their way to convey last thought.

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This Republic of Death - A Worthwhile Read

I found it hard to imagine there was a book's worth of discussion on the social impact of Civil War death on the American psyche, but the book was hard to put down.

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