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Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Preface: The Work of Death
1. Dying: “To Lay Down My Life”
2. Killing: “The Harder Courage”
3. Burying: “New Lessons Caring for the Dead”
4. Naming: “The Significant Word UNKNOWN”
5. Realizing: Civilians and the Work of Mourning
6. Believing and Doubting: “What Means this Carnage?”
7. Accounting: “Our Obligations to the Dead”
8. Numbering: “How Many? How Many?”
Epilogue: Surviving
Notes
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
A Note About the Author
Also by Drew Gilpin Faust
Copyright
IN MEMORY
OF
MCGHEE TYSON GILPIN
1919–2000
Captain, U.S. Army
Commanding Officer
Military Intelligence Interpreter Team #436
6th Armored Division
Wounded, August 6, 1944
Plouviens, France
Silver Star
Purple Heart
Croix de Guerre
Illustrations
Front Matter “The True Defenders of the Constitution”
Front Matter “Confederate Dead at Antietam, September 1862”
Chapter 1 “Dying of Gangrene”
Chapter 1 “An Incident at Gettysburg”
Chapter 1 “The Letter Home”
Chapter 1 “The Execution of the Deserter William Johnson”
Chapter 2 “The Sixth Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers Firing into the People”
Chapter 2 “The Army of the Potomac—A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty”
Chapter 2 “The War in Tennessee—Rebel Massacre of the Union Troops After the Surrender at Fort Pillow, April 12”
Chapter 2 “Unidentified Sergeant, U.S. Colored Troops”
Chapter 2 “Funeral of the Late Captain Cailloux”
Chapter 3 “Soldiers’ Graves near General Hospital, City Point, Virginia”
Chapter 3 “A Burial Party After the Battle of Antietam”
Chapter 3 “Antietam. Bodies of Confederate Dead Gathered for Burial”
Chapter 3 “Burying the Dead Under a Flag of Truce, Petersburg, 1864”
Chapter 3 “Dead Confederate Soldiers Collected for Burial. Spotsylvania, May 1864”
Chapter 3 “A Burial Trench at Gettysburg”
Chapter 3 “Rebel Soldiers After Battle ‘Peeling’ the Fallen Union Soldiers”
Chapter 3 “Burial of Federal Dead. Fredericksburg, 1864”
Chapter 3 “A Contrast: Federal Buried, Confederate Unburied, Where They Fell on the Battlefield of Antietam”
Chapter 3 Horse killed in the war. Sketch by Alfred R. Waud
Chapter 3 The Burial of Latané
Chapter 3 “Maryland and Pennsylvania Farmers Visiting the Battlefield of Antietam While the National Troops Were Burying the Dead and Carrying Off the Wounded”
Chapter 3 “Transportation of the Dead!”
Chapter 3 Business card for undertaker Lewis Ernde
Chapter 3 “Embalming Surgeon at Work on Soldier’s Body”
Chapter 3 “Dr. Bunnell’s Embalming Establishment in the Field (Army of the James)”
Chapter 4 Searching the casualty lists. Detail from “News of the War” by Winslow Homer
Chapter 4 “The United States Christian Commission Office at 8th and H Streets, Washington, D.C., 1865”
Chapter 4 “Nurses and Officers of the United States Sanitary Commission at Fredericksburg, Virginia, During the Wilderness Campaign, 1864”
Chapter 4 Telegram from William Drayton Rutherford to Sallie Fair Rutherford
Chapter 4 Advertisement for soldiers’ identification badges
Chapter 4 Note by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Chapter 4 Detail from “News of the War” by Winslow Homer
Chapter 4 “Ward K at Armory Square Hospital in Washington, D.C.”
Chapter 4 “An Unknown Soldier”
Chapter 4 Henry Clay Taylor
Chapter 4 “Libby Prison, Richmond Virginia, April 1865”
Chapter 5 “View of the Darlington Court-House and the Sycamore Tree Where Amy Spain, the Negro Slave, was Hung”
Chapter 5 John Saunders Palmer with his wife of less than a year, Alice Ann Gaillard Palmer
Chapter 5 Half-mourning dress of Varina Howell Davis
Chapter 5 “Women in Mourning, Cemetery in New Orleans”
Chapter 5 “View of the ‘Burnt District,’ Richmond, Va.”
Chapter 5 “Godey’s Fashions for June 1862.”
Chapter 5 “Women in Mourning at Stonewall Jackson’s Grave, circa 1866”
Chapter 5 “President Lincoln’s Funeral—Citizens Viewing the Body at the City Hall, New York”
Chapter 5 Henry Ingersoll Bowditch at the time of the Civil War
Chapter 6 “The Dying Soldier”
Chapter 6 “Battle-field of