HIST 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Drew Gilpin Faust
19 Oct 2018
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Reading: drew gilpin faust - numbers on top of numb. Beginning with the establishment of a national ceremony after the battle of gettysburg, the us moved towards a policy that yielded a massive effort to identify and rebury the union dead. By 1870, the bodies of almost 300,000 soldiers had been located across the south and buried in. Another effort was to name and honour the civil. In the late nineteenth century americans had a growing interest in the dead and they created policies and procedures to ensure more accurate record keeping. Historians of the civil war accept a total of 620,00 deaths and in the 1860s people started to account for the death"s impact. Armies did not have designated grave registration units. Union colonel thomas wentworth higginson saw the failures of record keeping as the inevitable outcome of a bureaucratic incapacity that arose from the unanticipated scale of conflict.
