More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War.
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In This Republic of Suffering , Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that Death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God.
An equivalent proportion of today\'s population would be six million.
More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War