The Great Task Remaining Before UsThrough informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the wars end. In doing so, it shows that the war did not actually end with Lees surrender at Appomattox and Lincolns