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The Confederate Survivors Association tried to preserve their memory, and in doing so, their histories of the Civil War "were based on a selective remembering of wartime events" (213). How do you think this "selective remembering" affected the memory of the war in the South? Also, in their reconstruction of certain events, like Sherman's march, memories shifted to make the North seem less "manly." What role do these memories play in the history of the memory of the war? -ABratchie | The Confederate Survivors Association tried to preserve their memory, and in doing so, their histories of the Civil War "were based on a selective remembering of wartime events" (213). How do you think this "selective remembering" affected the memory of the war in the South? Also, in their reconstruction of certain events, like Sherman's march, memories shifted to make the North seem less "manly." What role do these memories play in the history of the memory of the war? -ABratchie | ||
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| + | I found the information on page 163 describing how the South reconciled about the Civil War very interesting. The author states that sectional reconciliation was based on the abandonment of the causes of the war and focused instead on the common sacrifices of the individual solider, what ever his political affiliation, what ever his cause. We have tought about this a lot in class how Civil War memory became more about remembering the sacrifices of the soldiers instead of what they fought off. Did this reconciliation bring about as the other says the death of the Confederate cause? -Nick | ||
