One Union soldier’s reflections on the Lost Cause

The following is from Chapter 12 of the History of the Twelfth West Virginia Infantry (by William Hewitt) which is available on Linda Cunningham Fluharty’s fantastic website about that regiment.
… regarding the war from a moral and political standpoint, it sometimes seems as if the war did not last long enough. It took years of the terrible [...]

Comparing Civil War memory to Revolutionary War memory

In one of my classes last spring at William & Mary, I had the opportunity to examine how former Loyalists and Tories from the American Revolution had been treated in historic memory. Now, some think that the two are one in the same, but even I came to realize that this is not the case. [...]