Death and the Civil War

A soldier looking upon a Union soldier’s grave with the body of a Confederate soldier seemingly tossed aside in Antietam, Maryland. (September 1862) (Photo courtesy of Library of Congress) 
Drawing heavily on This Republic of Suffering, historian and Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust’s acclaimed book, DEATH and THE CIVIL WAR  explores a critical but largely overlooked aspect of the Civil War experience: the immense and varied implications of the war’s staggerin