Death and the Civil War, Chapter 1
Season 28
Episode 9
About the Episode
How the young United States dealt with the unprecedented and overwhelming number of dead in the Civil War. The Ric Burns film is based on the book "This Republic of Suffering" by Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust.
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| Expires: | Runtime: 11m 22s
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