", " I really really enjoyed this book. Even though it is an academic account, the book's portrayal of the period is incredibly touching.
Throughout, the viewpoints of soldiers, families, statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, and nurses, Northerners and Southerners, slaveholders and freed people, the most exalted, and the most humble are brought together to give a vivid understanding of the Civil War's widely shared reality.
Charles B. Dew. ", By: In The Myth of the Lost Cause, historian Edward Bonekemper deconstructs this multi-faceted myth, revealing the truth about the war that nearly tore the nation apart 150 years ago.
I now have a great understanding of the magnitude and effects of this war on the men and women that had to endure.
It really brought home what the average American went through during the Civil War and what they delt with afterward. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold.
During the Civil War, 620,000 soldiers lost their lives—equivalent to six million in today’s population.
Richard Ben Cramer, Narrated by: ALong the way I was wondering how to relate what I was reading to the death of an ancestor who had been killed in the Civil War. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans - black and white - responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery.
And Jefferson Davis felt "forced to take up arms" to guarantee states' rights.
This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. I look forward to the Burn's documentary as well as the Huntington Library exhibit.
This gave some new information to me on the mindset around death. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Drew Gilpin Faust (Author), Lorna Raver (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) & 0 more 4.3 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
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The former Confederate states have continually mythologized the South's defeat to the North, depicting the Civil War as unnecessary, or as a fight over states' Constitutional rights, or as a David v. Goliath struggle in which the North waged "total war" over an underdog South.
", " A sometimes startling history of an nation at war with itself deals with the bloody aftermath.
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Hence, private citizens and relief groups met these crucial needs until the federal government was able to grapple with great administrative duties.
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", " It is difficult to grasp not only how many people died in the Civil War, but also how massive of an impact those deaths had on the entire country.