Reflections on Hewitt’s statements about the “Lost Cause”

I found Hewitt’s comments about the Lost Cause while surfing the Web a couple of years ago and they have lingered with me ever since. I know that there were many in the North who wanted severe policies when it came to dealing with the postwar South. Despite what some have to say about reconstruction, [...]

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 [...]