In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I’s Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

– Drew Gilpin Faust

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