Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861–2015 (Timothy B. Smith - WH) NO The crisis of war transformed

The crisis of war transformed and deepened Lincoln's religious politics

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Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861–2015 (Timothy B. Smith - WH) NO The crisis of war transformedby Timothy B. Smith In the century and a half since the Civil War, various entities, both private and public, have earnestly sought to safeguard the legacy of that seismic conflict through the preservation of its battlefields. In Altogether Fitting and Propera title taken from Lincolns Gettysburg AddressTimothy B. Smith provides the most comprehensive synthesis ever written of the long, often fraught history of those preservation efforts, which began