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With the way that Civil War memory and artifacts are honored and collected, why did Alberta not receive more attention than she did?- aaskins
 
With the way that Civil War memory and artifacts are honored and collected, why did Alberta not receive more attention than she did?- aaskins
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On page 313, when Horowitz describes one of the speakers at a Sons of Confederate Veterans meeting, I gained a very different idea of what the SCV meetings were like, especially compared to the meeting from the earlier chapters. Contrary to the earlier meeting which seemed fairly dignified and with a decent amount of cheer later on, this speaker made it seem like the SCV was a bunch of old angry men who got together and whined when they didn't get their way and childishly accused others of being jealous of them. - AJ
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We talked about it briefly last class, but in the end how effective was Horowitz' approach to writing about everything he had learned/ been through? Did his writing style help or hurt his appeal and/or content? - AJ

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