The Civil War in Popular Culture: Memory and Meaning - Hardcoverby Lawrence A. Kreiser (Editor), Randal W. Allred (Editor) Dividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country's destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U. S. economic, cultural, and social structures still suffer the aftershocks of the nation's largest and most devastating war. Nearly 150 years later, portrayals of the war in books, songs, cinema,