It was only a very few years after the war that folks were getting together on battlefields for reenactments and picnics. Men in Blue and Gray would willingly sit down at the dinner table and break bread together.
In other nations, you see deep animosities that periodically result in pogroms, and general death and mayhem.
Sure, we still have regional rivalries, but that's fairly natural, and pre-existed the War Between the States anyway.
One of the truely tragic results of the war was the huge general increase in federal government power that has only grown since.
Your picture is one of the reasons this country has been so successful.
It was only a very few years after the war that folks were getting together on battlefields for reenactments and picnics. Men in Blue and Gray would willingly sit down at the dinner table and break bread together.
In other nations, you see deep animosities that periodically result in pogroms, and general death and mayhem.
Sure, we still have regional rivalries, but that’s fairly natural, and pre-existed the War Between the States anyway.
Marse Robert’s actions in April, 1865 (I highly recommend the book ‘April 1865’) went a long way to making this happen.