This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death) (Book Review‪)‬

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. By Drew Gilpin Faust. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Pp. xviii, 346. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-375-40404-7.) Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death. By Mark S. Schantz. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. Pp. [xviii], 245. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-3761-8.)