Death Becomes Her

[Jim Garrett]

The Museum of the Confederacy had an exhibit many years ago on mourning. Their is also an excellent PBS documentary "Death in the Civil War". It points out, among other things, the incredible effort by the government to go back to the battlefields after the war and recover remains of Union soldiers, try to identify them, and rebury them in the new National Cemetery system. The Federal government did nothing for the Confederate soldiers killed in action. This created a further divide and was an impediment to reunification of the country. Private associations, most women, put forth a remarkable effort to do the same in the South with no public funding. I highly recommend the video, available on Netflix.