HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Interest Story, Braxton Bragg, Frederick Douglass
23 Mar 2016
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Numbers on top of numbers : endless graves of the infinite death - loss was so great so to quantify it it helps people understand it. It"s part of a larger experience: immediate effort by americans to figure out how bad the war actually was- so this quantification of it, harvest of death , est. Burial wishes, reading the bible as you transition into afterlife: mourning and burial rituals interrupted, most americans were protestants, but these people did not die that good way . And by victorian era they thought they got a handle of infectious disease but in the warfare people are dying in enormous numbers of infectious disease. Not a heroic way to die: so victorian good death was interrupted by civil war. 4: the death of stonewall jackson- magazine pic to reassure the south, during civil war people did keep their mourning rituals, have a funeral with a body somebody identified, wear black.
