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Drew Gilpin FaustThis Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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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