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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 | 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 | ||
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| + | White talks about the silence and denial of slavery as a cause of the war, is this the true "lost cause"? -- R. King | ||
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| + | How did the memorialization of the dead transition into the conservation of the southern identity? -- R. King | ||
