Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ( ed. Brian Matthew Jordan, Jonathan W. White-S) set Horn’s definitive history is grounded

Horn’s definitive history is grounded in decades of archival research that uncovered scores of previously unused accounts

As the sun emerged

Between March 1863 and July 1865

from soldiers’ advocate Clara Barton and African American leader and Lincoln critic-turned-admirer Frederick Douglass (who called the speech “a sacred effort”) to conflicted actor John Wilkes Booth―all swirling around the complex figure of Lincoln

Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ( ed. Brian Matthew Jordan, Jonathan W. White-S) set Horn’s definitive history is groundedEdited 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