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General Longstreet and Me: Refighting the Civil War

General Longstreet and Me: Refighting the Civil War ESSAY ...................... General Longstreet and Me Refighting the Civil War by Louis D. Rubin Jr. "Southern history did happen. The region in which I was born and raised and where I now live did attempt to withdraw from the American Union . . . and it took four years of bloody sectional war to preserve that Union." The President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, memorialized in funeral procession in 1889 in New Orleans, courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection. eading Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, with its account of the vicissitudes of the battlefield reenactments and reenactors of the long-ago war, causes me to confront the fact of my own Confederate past. Although I never affected authentic battle garb, dined on rancid bacon and parched corn, or exchanged black-powder volleys with imitation Bluebellies, there was a time when I too fancied myself a latter-day Wearer of the Gray and viewed the Fall of Richmond as a replication of the Fall of Man. As my friend and long-ago teacher the late C. Vann Woodward remarked in later years, "You had a bad case of it." To understand properly http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

General Longstreet and Me: Refighting the Civil War

Rubin, Louis Decimus
Southern Cultures , Volume 8 (1) – Jan 2, 2002
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ESSAY ...................... General Longstreet and Me Refighting the Civil War by Louis D. Rubin Jr. "Southern history did happen. The region in which I was born and raised and where I now live did attempt to withdraw from the American Union . . . and it took four years of bloody sectional war to preserve that Union." The President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, memorialized in funeral procession in 1889 in New Orleans, courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection. eading Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, with its account of the vicissitudes of the battlefield reenactments and reenactors of the long-ago war, causes me to confront the fact of my own Confederate past. Although I never affected authentic battle garb, dined on rancid bacon and parched corn, or exchanged black-powder volleys with imitation Bluebellies, there was a time when I too fancied myself a latter-day Wearer of the Gray and viewed the Fall of Richmond as a replication of the Fall of Man. As my friend and long-ago teacher the late C. Vann Woodward remarked in later years, "You had a bad case of it." To understand properly

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