Introduction: Remembering the Civil War in Pennsylvania

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Introduction: Remembering the Civil War in Pennsylvania The American Civil War remains one of the most written about, read about, and wondered about conflicts in history. The enormity of the calamity that tore the nation apart less than a century after its founders imagined a new form of democratic republic is still difficult for us to fathom. Recent scholarship puts the death total at 700,000 or more — greater than all other American wars combined —...
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