The Cleaving of the American Republic: An Odyssey Seen Anew
Like most boys growing up in the South in the 1960s, I experienced the excitement of the “Civil War Centennial,” with its numerous commemorations and re-enactments, the publication of literally hundreds of books and essays, and including considerable time in the classroom recalling events of a century past, but which in many ways in my mind’s eye seemed only like yesterday. We read Bruce Catton, Clifford Dowdey, and various others, and, as I recall, a fabulously illustrated commemorative series published in Look Magazine, and we dreamed of riding with the “that devil Forrest” and the dashing…
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