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16 - Veterans and the Postwar World

from Part III - Outcomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

By
Barbara A. Gannon
Edited by
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
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Summary

When one visits a national cemetery and sees the row upon row of headstones, one might imagine that it has always been this way, American veterans who served in war and peace lying side by side in a sacred burial space – a privilege reflecting a grateful nation’s thanks. In reality, the benefit of burial at a national cemetery represents a recent development. During and after the Civil War, men and women killed in action or who died in service merited a place in the hallowed ground at battlefield cemeteries; later, veterans who died after their wars joined the wartime dead.

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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 330 - 349
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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