| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John R. Neff. Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2005. Pp. xiv, 328. $34.95.

Despite the enormity of the problem of Civil War fatalities—an estimated 620,000 dead—scholars have paid scant attention to how Americans confronted the various dimensions of wartime mortality. John R. Neff tackles the problem, partly with the aim of documenting the losses and the means by which northerners and southerners coped with death, but more importantly with the aim of reconsidering recent scholarship that documents the rapidity with which white Americans "clasped hands across the bloody chasm" and sealed the deal of reconciliation. Specifically, Neff challenges the reunion narrative and finds that dealing with the dead—in terms of grieving, commemorating, burying, remembering, and honoring—threw up noteworthy obstacles to the conciliatory process and served to perpetuate sectional hostility.

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