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On page 229, Blight discusses Joel Chandler Harris's story "The Comedy of War" he describes an impending battle on Squire Farnborogh's farm. Apparently the Squire has a son fighting in each army.  Although the story is fiction is there truth to the fact that brother faced brother, and how common place was this? --R. King
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On page 229, Blight discusses Joel Chandler Harris' story "The Comedy of War" he describes an impending battle on Squire Farnborogh's farm. Apparently the Squire has a son fighting in each army.  Although the story is fiction is there truth to the fact that brother faced brother, and how common place was this? --R. King
  
 
Blight seems to be saying that the Underground Railroad is a myth, is this true? -- R. King
 
Blight seems to be saying that the Underground Railroad is a myth, is this true? -- R. King
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Is DuBois' address an attempt to refute the Lost Cause ideology? -- R. King
  
 
We had discussed to a limited extent in class the ways in which classical ideals played into a creation of the memory of the Confederacy. DuBois seems to strike at the heart of this when he says, "we seek in vain the Teutonic deification of Self, and Roman brute force." Why else would he feel it necessary to base his speech around the glories of the Teutonic or the Roman Empires, unless he saw the Lost Cause becoming institutionalized?- DRadtke
 
We had discussed to a limited extent in class the ways in which classical ideals played into a creation of the memory of the Confederacy. DuBois seems to strike at the heart of this when he says, "we seek in vain the Teutonic deification of Self, and Roman brute force." Why else would he feel it necessary to base his speech around the glories of the Teutonic or the Roman Empires, unless he saw the Lost Cause becoming institutionalized?- DRadtke

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