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A 4 page paper which offers up a book report on Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. No additional sources cited.
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a great many historians. It is a time which incites many to research and a topic that has many perspectives from which historians write about as they seek some answers
and understanding of the war. Drew Gilpin Fausts work This Republic of Suffering is a book that seeks to examine the war from what seems to be a very new
perspective, a perspective that examines how the people of the new nation dealt with the incredible amount of death that surrounded them. The following paper offers up a report of
this work. Report on This Republic of Suffering by Faust This book, as mentioned, addresses the reality of death during the
Civil War. In the preface the author notes, "It is work to deal with the dead...to remove them in the literal sense of disposing of their bodies, and it is
also work to remove them in a more figurative sense....This is a book about the work of death in the American Civil War" (Faust, 2009; xiv). It is not a
book that necessarily deals with different battles but rather examines the conditions of death, dealing with the death, and somehow moving along despite all the death. The work examines such
things as the often unnoticed reality wherein many dead were never identified. It illustrate, even, how some people were believed dead, even possessed of a grave, but were actually
alive. IN essence, the book is about how the nation dealt with death in light of the fact that this Civil War was unlike any other war in the nations
history. It was devastating war that killed more people than any other war, and a war that was brutal and not classic, in the sense that it was a war
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