Description: "Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation-and how those meanings still influence Americans today. In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite-including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat rows of military headstones, university graveyards, tombs without bodies, and small family plots. Each burial place tells a unique story of how someone lived and died-and how they were mourned and remembered. Together, they help us reckon with the most tragic period of American history"--
Brief description:
BRIAN MATTHEW JORDAN is associate professor and chairperson of history at Sam Houston State University. He is the author or editor of five books, including Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War; The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans; and A Thousand May Fall: Live, Death, and Survival in the Union Army.
Review Quotes: Until Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves appeared this year, Civil War enthusiasts previously found little available that provided such deep, personal, and introspective stories about the burial places of the war's participants. . . . Final Resting Places makes a valuable contribution to the expanding body of work about Civil War-Era death and memory. Not only are each of the articles extremely informative, they are well researched, and written in a style that both experts and general audiences will find educational and accessible.--Tim Talbott "Emerging Civil War"