I recently had the chance to preview Death and the Civil War, which will air on PBS on September 18 at 8 a.m. The two-hour documentary is nicely produced and explores how the Civil War and its mass killing changed how our culture views death and how the military deals with the death of its servicemen. Estimates now place the number of people killed in the Civil War at around 750,000 or about 2.5 percent of the U.S. population. The number of deaths at large battles like Antietam overwhelmed the communities near where the battles were fought. I’m not quite sure how I came to be asked to review the show, but I’m guessing that it has to do with my writing about the war. The bulk of my writing has been related to my book, Battlefield Angels: The Daughters Read more…