Abstract
The American Civil War was the deadliest conflict in United States history, with upwards of 750,000 soldiers dead from 1861 to 1865. The bloody consequences of this sectional strife shocked Americans, leaving survivors—veterans and those on the home front—with the challenge of remembering, interpreting, and grappling with what, exactly, the fighting had been all about. In 1866, a group of Illinois Union veterans founded the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), which eventually became the nation’s largest Union Civil War veterans’ fraternal organization, number-
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