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It is important to remember the atrocities that soldiers on both sides endured during the war. Some endured long term stays in prison, others lost limbs in the war, and others had acquired mental problems that would plague them throughout their lives. These were some of the memories that would form Civil War veterans' memories concerning the war.-Nick | It is important to remember the atrocities that soldiers on both sides endured during the war. Some endured long term stays in prison, others lost limbs in the war, and others had acquired mental problems that would plague them throughout their lives. These were some of the memories that would form Civil War veterans' memories concerning the war.-Nick | ||
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| + | On page 89, Blight says, "On these landscapes of Civil War Memory, devotion to the Lost Cause had already gained a special place in the American imagination- the alleged nobility of losers in a desperate struggle carried an enduring fascination in an age increasingly characterized by cynical politics, amoral machines, and the impersonal leviathan of industrialization." Already, African Americans were being left out of the conversation, replaced by the soldiers themselves. Does anyone else see this quote as indicative of Blight's overall thesis?- DRadtke | ||
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| + | On page 149, Blight reveals that Lee seemed to think it wiser to speed the process of reconciliation than to dwell on the cost of war. Today, Lee enjoys a "god-like status." I've heard him described as the "greatest general in history." So how did he depart from the Southern rhetoric of the postwar era and still be remembered as favorably as he is?- DRadtke | ||
