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What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.

~Dougray Scott

Topics: Because Being Civil Civil War Crusade Economic Humanitarian Inclined Invading Iraq King Landed Latter Money Reason Same Say Stolen War Would

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Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

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Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: America American Civil Civil War Commitments Created Death Demanding Enduring Ensuring Fundamental Just Modern Most National Shaping Structures Survival Undertaking Union War Work

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I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Being Bodies Body Civil Civil War Could Created Human Human Being Integral Left Numbers Rot Soul Think Threats Understanding United War Were I Think

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Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were no regularized processes in either Northern or Southern Army for notifying next of kin.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Army Cases Civil Civil War Dead Either Half Identified Kin Know Loved Loved Ones Next Northern Processes Southern War Way Were

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Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: American Because Civil Civil War Face Fact Gone Having Heaven Hoped Interested Like Loved Loved Ones Many Might Other Period Realm Very War Were

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In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: American American History Any Century Civil Civil War Conflict Death Embarked Entering Front Global History Middle New Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Other Proved Relationship Slaughter States Than Twentieth Twentieth Century United United States War Western World World War Would

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The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: American Been Characteristic Civil Civil War Combination Inhumanity Later Often Produced Proficiency Reserved Technological Thought Time War

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When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: About Central Civil Civil War Core Courage Death Dramatic Glorious Growing Growing Up Honor How Later Lives Me Military Most Presented Reality Realized Talked Up Virginia War Women

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As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Always Brother Brothers Cause Celebration Child Civil Civil War Confederacy Emphasis Era Got Grant Growing Growing Up Had He Insisted Kid Knew Lee Lost Lot Never Older Older Brother Passed Play Quite Quite Some Time Soldiers Some Time Until Up Used War Won

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