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Inglorious Passages - Noncombat Deaths in the American Civil War (Hardcover)
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Inglorious Passages - Noncombat Deaths in the American Civil War (Hardcover)
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Of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died in the Civil War,
two-thirds, by some estimates, were felled by disease; untold
others were lost to accidents, murder, suicide, sunstroke, and
drowning. Meanwhile thousands of civilians in both the north and
south perished—in factories, while caught up in battles near
their homes, and in other circumstances associated with wartime
production and supply. These “inglorious passages,” no less
than the deaths of soldiers in combat, devastated the armies in the
field and families and communities at home. Inglorious Passages for
the first time gives these noncombat deaths due consideration. In
letters, diaries, obituaries, and other accounts, eminent Civil War
historian Brian Steel Wills finds the powerful and poignant stories
of fatal accidents and encounters and collateral civilian deaths
that occurred in the factories and fields of the Union and the
Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. Wills retrieves these stories from
obscurity and the cold calculations of statistics to reveal the
grave toll these losses exacted on soldiers and civilians, families
and society. In its intimate details and its broad scope, his book
demonstrates that for those who served and those who supported
them, noncombat fatalities were as significant as battle deaths in
impressing the full force of the American Civil War on the people
called upon to live through it. With the publication of Inglorious
Passages, those who paid the supreme sacrifice, regardless of
situation or circumstance, will at last be included in the final
tabulation of the nation’s bloodiest conflict.
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