[Iron Munro]

Also, unlike what we did in WWII, once we devastated the south we did nothing to build it up. It fell into bitterness and poverty like nothing the country had suffered up until then.

That is an excellent point and goes a long way to explaining the strong feelings that still reside in the heart of the south.

Some northerners might grow up to have a less bigoted view of the south if some of the less pleasant facts of the Union's conduct in and after the war were were taught in school.

But as Winston Churchill observed - “History is written by the victors.”

[miss marmelstein]

If people read more great literature - like Faulkner - they’d have a better understanding. But here at FR if you spend your college days reading great works of literature rather than going to engineering class...you’re a dope. But at least I understand my country’s history.

[rockrr]

And mythologies by the losers.

The history of the War Between The States has been chronicled from every perspective, with perhaps more attention to detail than any earlier conflict. Lost Causers have their published tomes sitting alongside more objective treatises.

There has been no short-shrift to the record, no omission of the facts and details, and with southern partisans contributing, no one-sided narrative.