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Janney, Caroline E.
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973.71 23
Publication Date
2013
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As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation--men and women, black and white, Unionists and Confederates--crafted and protected their memories of the nation's greatest conflict. Janney maintains that the participants never fully embraced the reconciliation so famously represented in handshakes across stone walls. Instead, both Union and Confederate veterans, a.
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Dennett, John Richard, 1838-1874.
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975.041 22
Publication Date
2010 1965
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This classic report originally appeared as a series of articles in the Nation between July 8, 1865, and April 11, 1866. Dennett traveled in seven states--Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi--at the very beginning of Reconstruction. His remarkably prophetic account of the recently defeated South is a major source for the history of this transition.
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124267.2188
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Ayers, Edward L., 1953-
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975.503 22
Publication Date
2006
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