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  This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) (Paperback) By (author) Professor Drew Gilpin Faust

  

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  Short Description for This Republic of SufferingThe president of Harvard University presents this innovative study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and consequences of death in the face of the unprecedented slaughter of the Civil War. 56 illustrations.
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books USA
  • Published: 06 January 2009
  • Format: Paperback 346 pages
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  • Categories: History Of The Americas | Military History | American Civil War
  • ISBN 13: 9780375703836 ISBN 10: 0375703837
  • Sales rank: 57,379

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• 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 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.