Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Sarah J. Purcell - CH) longstreet makes stops at Seminary Ridge

makes stops at Seminary Ridge

Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them

Every reader of Patriots Twice has benefited from the post-Civil War reconciliation when former combatants put down their swords

Also included are the stories of civilians who bore witness to the tremendous battle and who settled in Texas after the Civil War

Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Sarah J. Purcell - CH) longstreet makes stops at Seminary Ridgeby 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.