Among the Graves
Thomas Laqueur: Naming the Dead, 18 December 2008
The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction
by Mark Neely.
Harvard, 277 pp., £20.95, November 2007,978 0 674 02658 2 Show More
by Mark Neely.
Harvard, 277 pp., £20.95, November 2007,
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
by Drew GilpinFaust.
Knopf, 346 pp., $27.95, January 2008,978 0 375 40404 7 Show More
by Drew GilpinFaust.
Knopf, 346 pp., $27.95, January 2008,
“... or were shot in cold blood. The economy of the South was ruined. ‘The American Civil War,’ Drew Faust writes in This Republic of Suffering, ‘produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.’ This would seem fairly uncontroversial. Mark Neely ... ”
