Wasted Valor The Confederate Dead at Gettysburg (Gregory A. Coco) - GC Gettysburg Art by Bonnie Marris

Art by Bonnie Marris

the implementation of the draft spurred a debate about sacrifice―both physical and ideological―as the Confederacy’s insatiable demand for soldiers only grew in the face of a grueling war

and the 19th Maine helped stop Pickett's Charge during the battle's climax

Sean Wilentz assesses Lincoln's evolving position in the context of party politics

While Lincoln excelled at self-mockery

Wasted Valor The Confederate Dead at Gettysburg (Gregory A. Coco) - GC Gettysburg Art by Bonnie MarrisGreg Coco Hundreds of firsthand accounts describing the gruesome appearance of the sprawling and horrific Gettysburg battlefield meticulously describe the true cost of Civil War combat. Greg Coco, the legendary expert on Gettysburgs dead, painstakingly details the early round of burials and explains how Southern remains were identified (whenever possible) and removed in the early 1870s. Six maps identify the location of more than 100 burial sites.