Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Sarah J. Purcell - CH) migration the horrors of warfare

the horrors of warfare

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into a powerful portrait of southern society from the mid-eighteenth century to the Civil War

embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age

Candice Millard

Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Sarah J. Purcell - CH) migration the horrors of warfareby Sarah J. Purcell This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities. These funerals featured lengthy processions that sometimes crossed multiple state lines, burial ceremonies open to the public, and other cultural productions of commemoration such as oration and song. As Sarah J.