Honoring the Civil War Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Honoring the Civil War Dead write by John R. Neff. This book was released on 2005. Honoring the Civil War Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his estimation, Northerners were just as active as Southerners in myth-making after the war. Crafting a "Cause Victorious" myth that was every bit as resonant and powerful as the much better-known "Lost Cause" myth cherished by Southerners, the North asserted through commemorations the existence of a loyal and reunified nation long before it was actually a fact. Neff reveals that as Northerners and Southerners honored their separate dead, they did so in ways that underscore the limits of reconciliation between Union and Confederate veterans, whose mutual animosities lingered for many decades after the need of the war. Ultimately, Neff argues that the process of reunion and reconciliation that has been so much the focus of recent literature either neglects or dismisses the persistent reluctance of both Northerners and Southerners to "forgive and forget," especially where their dead were concerned.
This Republic of Suffering
This Republic of Suffering - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Republic of Suffering write by Drew Gilpin Faust. This book was released on 2009-01-06. This Republic of Suffering available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 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. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Gettysburg's Confederate Dead
Gettysburg's Confederate Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gettysburg's Confederate Dead write by Robert K. Krick. This book was released on 2014-09-29. Gettysburg's Confederate Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most accurate roster ever compiled of the Confederate dead from the Battle of Gettysburg that spanned July 1 - 3, 1863. There are more than 5,000 names and each soldier is listed by name, rank & company & regiment, date of birth, date of death, brief personal info, and burial spot. The information in this book will be a huge resource for historians, genealogists, family researchers and students of the American Civil War.
Burying the Dead but Not the Past
Burying the Dead but Not the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Burying the Dead but Not the Past write by Caroline E. Janney. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Burying the Dead but Not the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Janney shows, local LMAs were earning sympathy for defeated Confederates. Her exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.
From These Honored Dead
From These Honored Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From These Honored Dead write by Clarence R. Geier. This book was released on 2014-04-22. From These Honored Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presenting the best current archaeological scholarship on the American Civil War, From These Honored Dead shows how historical archaeology can uncover the facts beneath the many myths and conflicting memories of the war that have been passed down through generations. By incorporating the results of archaeological investigations, the essays in this volume shed new light on many aspects of the Civil War. Topics include soldier life in camp and on the battlefield, defense mechanisms such as earthworks construction, the role of animals during military operations, and a refreshing focus on the conflict in the Trans-Mississippi West. Supplying a range of methods and exciting conclusions, this book displays the power of archaeology in interpreting this devastating period in U.S. history.
