Honoring the Civil War dead
Subtitle: commemoration and the problem of reconciliation
By: John R. Neff.
Series: Modern war studies
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Soldiers' monuments -- United States -- History; Soldiers' monuments -- Southern States -- History; Nationalism -- United States -- History; Nationalism -- Southern States -- History; Reconciliation -- History -- 19th century; Reconciliation -- History -- 20th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Monuments; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence; United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-315) and index.
Table of contents: title: "This mysterious providence" : Americans' initial responses to Civil War death; title: "A heroic, eminent death" : the national dimensions of Lincoln's assassination; title: "One interminable grave-yard" : northern dominance in the commemoration of the soldier dead; title: "Death in a far-off, stranger's land" : southern creation and commemoration; title: "Something like a national act" : the uneasy synthesis of American nationalism; title: The congregation of the dead.