New Book on the Civil War: This Republic of Suffering

Books / Sunday Book Review
New York Times

Death’s Army

By GEOFFREY C. WARD

Published: January 27, 2008

Drew Gilpin Faust, the president of Harvard, has written an extraordinary new book about the enormous loss of human life in the Civil War — 620,000 men, North and South.

First Chapter: ‘This Republic of Suffering’ (January 27, 2008)

THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING
Death and the American Civil War.
By Drew Gilpin Faust.
Illustrated. 346 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. List Price $27.95.