Awaiting the heavenly country : the Civil War and America's culture of death /
"Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to be killed. They understood that death awaited all who were born and prized the ability to face death with a spirit of calm resignation. They belie...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2008
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