Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Sarah J. Purcell - CH) longstreet and Civil War enthusiasts alike

and Civil War enthusiasts alike

decided on a middle ground

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

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

Minty’s small cavalry brigade held off nearly ten times its number on September 18 by designing and implementing a textbook example of a delaying action

Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Sarah J. Purcell - CH) longstreet and Civil War enthusiasts alikeby 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.