Final Resting Places

Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves


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.

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; how they were mourned and remembered. Together, they help us reckon with the most tragic period of American history.

CONTRUBUTORS: Terry Alford, Melodie Andrews, Edward L. Ayers, DeAnne Blanton, Michael Burlingame, Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, John M. Coski, William C. Davis, Douglas R. Egerton, Stephen D. Engle, Barbara Gannon, Michael P. Gray, Hilary Green, Allen C. Guelzo, Anna Gibson Holloway, Vitor Izecksohn, Caroline E. Janney, Michelle A. Krowl, Glenn W. LaFantasie, Jennifer M. Murray, Barton A. Myers, Timothy J. Orr, Christopher Phillips, Mark S. Schantz, Dana B. Shoaf, Walter Stahr, Michael Vorenberg, and Ronald C. White

Contributor: Brian Matthew Jordan (Edited by), Jonathan W. White (Edited by), David W. Blight (Foreword by), Edward L. Ayers (Contributions by), William Davis (Contributions by), Douglas R. Egerton (Contributions by), Anna Gibson Holloway (Contributions by), Caroline E. Janney (Contributions by), Michelle Krowl (Contributions by), Barton A. Myers (Contributions by), Barbara Gannon (Contributions by), Hilary Green (Contributions by), Terry Alford (Contributions by), Melodie Andrews (Contributions by), Danalisa DeAnne Blanton (Contributions by), Michael Burlingame (Contributions by), John M. Coski (Contributions by), Michael Gray (Contributions by), Allen Carl Guelzo (Contributions by), Vitor Izecksohn (Contributions by), Glenn W. LaFantasie (Contributions by), Jennifer M. Murray (Contributions by), Timothy J. Orr (Contributions by), Chris Phillips (Contributions by), Mark S. Schantz (Contributions by), Dana Shoaf (Contributions by), Walter B. Stahr (Contributions by), Michael Vorenberg (Contributions by), Ronald C. White (Contributions by), Katherine Reynolds Chaddock (Contributions by), Stephen D. Engle (Contributions by)

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