The Civil War resulted in more deaths than all other American wars combined.Death touched the lives of almost every American during the Civil War. Attitudestowards death before the war greatly varied to deaths during the war. American'snotion of a good death where one died at home surrounded by family vanished. Mendied on the battlefield, in field hospitals, and in prisons. Families constructed newrituals for far away deaths. The war also brought about great advancements in thefuneral industry including embalming. This class examines the effects that death hadon Americans during the Civil War.

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