Kamis, 30 November 2017

Blue and Gray: Union Vets Claimed They Fought for a ‘Higher’ Cause

It has become widely accepted that reconciliation quickly spread across the North and South after Appomattox, and that white Americans from both regions agreed to play down the importance of slavery and emancipation in an effort to heal wartime scars. Speeches delivered by Union veterans at Gettysburg in the late 1880s afford a perfect opportunity …

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