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This Republic of Suffering - Death and the American Civil War

By: Random House

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Random House)


Product Info

Title
This Republic of Suffering - Death and the American Civil War
Publisher
Category
Author
Drew Gilpin Faust
Publish Year
2009
Pages
346
Dimensions
5x8x1"
NKG Part #
2148115525
Type
Softcover

Description

An estimated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality.