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During the American Civil War, some Union and Confederate soldiers would collect small remains of their fallen enemies, commonly ears, skulls, or other bones, shape them into jewelry or other items, and send them back home to their families as trophies. This was not practiced by many soldiers, but some make note of it in their letters and diaries. Sources: Laderman, Gary. "Death During Wartime." In The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883, 96-102. Yale University Press, 1996. Accessed through JSTOR on August 1, 2018: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt32bgzn.13. Bennett, Michael J. "The Black Flag and Confederate Soldiers: Total War from the Bottom Up?" In This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old Questions about the Civil War-Era North, edited by Slap Andrew L. and Smith Michael Thomas, 142-58. Fordham University, 2013. Accessed through JSTOR on August 1, 2018: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x0cr8.13. |
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