Honoring the Civil War dead : commemoration and the problem of reconciliation / John R. Neff.

Author: Neff, John R.

Imprint:Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2005.

Descriptionxiv, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:"This mysterious providence" : Americans' initial responses to Civil War death -- "A heroic, eminent death" : the national dimensions of Lincoln's assassination -- "One interminable grave-yard" : northern dominance in the commemoration of the soldier dead -- "Death in a far-off, stranger's land" : southern creation and commemoration -- "Something like a national act" : the uneasy synthesis of American nationalism -- The congregation of the dead.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-315) and index.

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