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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

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Essay Topics

1.

Explain the prominent role that religious beliefs played in the way 19thcentury Americans viewed death and dying.

2.

Pick a Civil-War-themed poem of Walt Whitman’s and show how that poem exemplifies some of the issues raised in This Republic of Suffering.

3.

Describe in detail the various ways soldiers and civilians encountered difficulties in producing accurate body counts.

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