Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Sarah J. Purcell - CH) Style:Hardcover each had energetically sought the

each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war

Hill and Henry “Harry” Heth

others reacted only after large numbers of their men had already fallen ill

by Harold Holzer

the sights and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the stone walls and gunpowder clouds of Pickett’s Charge

Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Sarah J. Purcell - CH) Style:Hardcover each had energetically sought theby Sarah J. Purcell This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities. These funerals featured lengthy processions that sometimes crossed multiple state lines, burial ceremonies open to the public, and other cultural productions of commemoration such as oration and song. As Sarah J.