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This is a very necessary book on a topic few people want to know about. The most important question people would have I wrote in the headline. All the military stones in any cemetery raises the question; are they actually buried there or is the marker a cenotaph (memorial for someone buried elsewhere). If they are buried at their home cemetery, how were the bodies brought back considering the long distances and the rapid decomposition. The author does not spare us gruesome details such as the piles of body parts from the surgeons' amputations, the scenes of suffering from thousands of the wounded, descriptions of the fields after the battles with all the dead lying around, wild pigs cannibalizing the bodies, and the dead buried hastily, if at all, resulting in thousands of men buried in unknown sites without proper markers. Many black and white pictures on practically every page help us get through the details. Many interesting facts are presented: the story of the first officer to be killed, who was a friend of President Lincoln, five horses were killed for every one soldier, true history of the Taps bugle call with its three verses, military gravestones for Confederates have pointed tops and Union soldiers have rounded tops, little known museums and sites to visit, the pioneer photography of Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner who brought back over 10,000 images from the war, Dr. Jonathan Letterman who saved so many lives, the beginning science of embalming made necessary by the war, the national cemeteries with their neat rows to provide us calm now from the chaos before, description of the vast boneyard at the Wilderness of Virginia, the work of Dorence Atwater and Clara Barton who made lists of those who died at Andersonville prison, the work of historians to count the Civil War dead, the slave in Elmira, New York, who buried the Confederates who died in the prison there, and the beautiful luminary event at Poplar Grove National Cemetery where every soldier's grave gets a light in November. If this book doesn't tell you how war is hell, that marching off to war isn't glorious, nothing will. I gave this book five stars despite no index and the poor glue binding. I was going to donate this book to a local library, but the 22 loose pages now make that impossible. The publisher has now sent me a good copy with good binding, so my original copy must have been an anomaly.
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