5/22/2023 0 Comments 1861 goodheart![]() The casualties were the great tragedy of the war in emancipation lay its great virtue.Īmericans like their tragedies to have happy endings, William Dean Howells once quipped, likely not thinking, at least not consciously, of the terrible slaughter he had avoided by being posted to Venice as US Consul during the war. But-no small thing-as a result of that war, slavery, once euphemistically called the “peculiar institution,” was abolished. By 1865 the war had taken the lives of at least 620,000 people, not counting the incalculable number of those who tended the wounded and died from typhoid or sheer exhaustion, or of those who stayed at home and read, day after day, the casualty lists that broke their hearts. ![]()
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