Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ( ed. Brian Matthew Jordan, Jonathan W. White-S) kearny What followed was a desperate

What followed was a desperate and bloody death match that ran through the long siege of Richmond and Petersburg before finally ending at Appomattox Court House eleven months later—but at what cost along the way

The Union assaults continued on August 30 until Longstreet launched a massive assault that rolled up the Union left flank and collapsed Pope’s army

he also explains how the bonds they formed continued long after the cessation of hostilities

arresting narrative of the liberation

The site of the most intense clashes became forever known as the Bloody Angle

Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ( ed. Brian Matthew Jordan, Jonathan W. White-S) kearny What followed was a desperateEdited by Brian Matthew Jordan & Jonathan W. White Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generationand how those meanings still influence Americans today. In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesiteincluding large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers on