‘I Know That Your Poor Heart Trembles’: An Irish Mother Receives Word of Her Wounded Son, 1861
For the families of soldiers in the American Civil War, the possibility that their loved ones might not have a ‘good death’ was a constant fear. In a society accustomed to experiencing death by their families bedside, the remoteness of many Civil War fatalities denied family members the opportunity to witness their relation’s all important final moments. An awareness of this ‘need […]
