The coffin is lowered and settled….the     whip is laid on the coffin,
The earth is swiftly shovelled in…. a     minute..no one moves or speaks…
    it is done,
He is decently put away….is there     anything more?

(To Think of Time 102)
Image ID: LC-USZC4-1820
Burying the dead at hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Photographed between 1861 and 1865