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 Gilpin Faust.
Knopf, 346 pp., $27.95, January 2008,978 0 375 40404 7 Show More
by Drew Gilpin Faust.
Knopf, 346 pp., $27.95, January 2008,
“... and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.’ This would seem fairly uncontroversial. Mark Neely disagrees. It was neither ‘total war’ nor ‘the first of the world’s modern wars’ nor a ‘warfare of terror’, as others have claimed. Lincoln may have sanctioned a ‘policy of “being terrible” on the enemy’, but no such policy ... ”
