This Republic of Suffering

Why read it

• You will grasp the scale of Civil War death and what it did to ordinary families and a whole society
• You will see how people cope when death comes in numbers no one planned for, from battlefield burial to naming the dead
• You will understand how a great loss can shape the rest of a life and a country's sense of itself

Who it is for

• Someone thinking about grief and how earlier generations mourned
• Someone curious what mass death does to a society
• A history reader drawn to the human side of war

Contents

1. Preface
2. CHAPTER 1
3. CHAPTER 2
4. CHAPTER 3
5. CHAPTER 4
6. CHAPTER 5
7. CHAPTER 6
8. CHAPTER 7
9. CHAPTER 8
10. EPILOGUE

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