Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era

Authors

Meg GroelingFollow

ISBN

9781469668345

Publication Date

April 2022

Price

26.99

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Abstract

Sarah J. Purcell shows how public funerals and grieving of prominent figures of the Civil War era reflected nineteenth-century Americans' attitudes toward their nation, its future, and its tumultuous past.

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.24.3.18

Recommended Citation

Groeling, Meg (2022) "Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 24 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.24.3.18
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol24/iss3/18