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Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ( ed. Brian Matthew Jordan, Jonathan W. White-S) kearny Although the greatEdited by Brian Matthew Jordan & Jonathan W. White Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generationand how those meanings still influence Americans today. In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesiteincluding large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers on