Chapter 7 Clara Barton, circa 1865. Photograph by Mathew Brady. Clara Barton National Historic Site/National Park Service.
Chapter 7 “A Burial Party on the Battle-field of Cold Harbor, Virginia, April 1865.” Negative by John Reekie; print and caption by Alexander Gardner. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Civil War Photographs, LC-DIG-cwpb-04324.
Chapter 7 “Miss Clara Barton Raising the National Flag, August 17, 1865,” at Andersonville. Sketched by I. C. Schotel. Harper’s Weekly, October 7, 1865. Widener Library, Harvard College Library, P 207.6 F.
Chapter 7 “The Soldier’s Grave.” Lithograph by Currier and Ives. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Popular Graphic Art (Historical Print) Collection, LC-USZC2-3015.
Chapter 7 “Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia—Decorating the Graves of the Rebel Soldiers.” Harper’s Weekly, August 17, 1867. Widener Library, Harvard College Library, P 207.6 F.
Chapter 7 “Confederate Cemetery of Vicksburg.” Photo by David Butow, 1997. © David Butow/CORBIS SABA.
Chapter 8 Walt Whitman. Photograph by Mathew Brady. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, LC-DIG-cwpbh-00752.
A Note About the Author
Drew Gilpin Faust, a 1968 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, took her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and taught history and American civilization there from 1975, becoming a full professor in 1984 and Annenberg Professor of History in 1989. In 2001 she became Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where she also holds the Lincoln Professorship of History. On July 1, 2007, she became the twenty-eighth president of Harvard. She is the author of five previous books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slave-holding South in the American Civil War (1996), which won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians and the Avery Craven Prize of the Organization of American Historians. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Also by Drew Gilpin Faust
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War
The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South
James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery
A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840–1860
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Portions of this book originally appeared in Civil War Times and Harvard Magazine.
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Faust, Drew Gilpin.
This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. United—States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Social aspects. 2. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Psychological aspects. 3. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Influence. 4. Death—Social aspects—United States—History—19th century. 5. Death—United States—Psychological aspects—History—19th century. 6. Burial—Social aspects—United States—History—19th century. 7. Burial—United States—Psychological aspects—History—19th century. I. Title.
E468.9.F385 2008
973.7'1—dc22 2007014658
eISBN: 978-0-307-26858-7
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