Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Sarah J. Purcell - CH) codori the retreat across the Potomac

the retreat across the Potomac River

Cunningham provides detailed information on the administration of the Confederate Medical Department

has spent more than two decades studying Antietam and editing and richly annotating Carman’s exhaustively written manuscript

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Lincoln became the only President with a patent

Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Sarah J. Purcell - CH) codori the retreat across the Potomacby 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.