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This Republic of Suffering

Death and the American Civil War
  • Drew Gilpin Faust
2008
Vintage

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This Republic of Suffering

The enormous scale of death in the Civil War, and how it altered the American way of dying.
via BackStory on May 23, 2014

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A drawing of Civil War soldiers toasting each other around a table as death, in the form of a skeleton, waits outside the tent (c. 1863).

Understanding Trauma in the Civil War South

Suicide during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
by Sarah Handley-Cousins, Diane Miller Sommerville via Nursing Clio on March 20, 2019
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