Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Sarah J. Purcell - CH) Style:Hardcover by Harold Holzer

by Harold Holzer

and profit from Lincoln’s endeavor

the sights and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the stone walls and gunpowder clouds of Pickett’s Charge

Hill and Henry “Harry” Heth

Along the Mississippi River and other inland waterways across the South

Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Sarah J. Purcell - CH) Style:Hardcover by Harold Holzerby 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.