[Review] This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Drew Gilpin Faust) Summarized.

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Drew Gilpin Faust) - Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375703837?tag=9natree-20 - Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/This-Republic-of-Suffering%3A-Death-and-the-American-Civil-War-Drew-Gilpin-Faust.html - Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/this-republic-of-suffering-death-and-the-american-civil-war/id1646104514?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree - eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=This+Republic+of+Suffering+Death+and+the+American+Civil+War+Drew+Gilpin+Faust+&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5339060787&customid=9natree&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 - Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/0375703837/ #CivilWardeathculture #GoodDeathideal #unidentifiedsoldiers #nationalcemeteries #mourningandmemory #ThisRepublicofSuffering This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War is a work of cultural and social history by Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian and former president of Harvard University. Rather than offering a conventional military account of campaigns and generals, the book examines how the American Civil War forced the United States to confront death on a scale without precedent in its national experience. Faust studies the approximately 620,000 military deaths commonly associated with the war, while also emphasizing that numbers alone cannot explain the moral, religious, administrative, and emotional upheaval created by mass mortality. The book is organized around practices and problems such as dying, killing, burying, naming, mourning, believing, accounting, and numbering. Using letters, diaries, sermons, newspapers, photographs, official records, and memorial practices, Faust shows how death reshaped family life, religious thought, federal responsibility, and national memory. Its purpose is to explain how a war about union and slavery also became a national education in loss.