Wanting confirmation.4.Lies, and be careful in subsequent papers to correct all errors in preceding ones." Allow me to suggest that your story might, under Mr.Jefferson's category, be placed under "2." Perhaps you went to see "The Birth of a Nation" before you wrote it.

It has been my experience that my acquaintances among the F.F.V.'s have been far more interested in whether Boston or Brooklyn would win the pennant than in discussing the Civil War.

By the young men of the South the War was forgotten long ago.
This letter has caused me to wonder whether the frequency with which my companion and I heard the Civil War discussed, may not, perhaps, have been due, at least in part, to our own inquiries, resulting from the consuming interest that we had in hearing of the War from those who lived where it was fought.
Yet, after all, it seems to me most natural that the South should remember, while the North forgets.

Not all Northerners were in the war.
But all Southerners were; if a boy was big enough to carry a gun, he went.

The North almost completely escaped invasion, and upon one occasion when a southern army did march through northern territory, the conduct of the invading troops toward the civilian population (the false Barbara Frietchie legend to the contrary notwithstanding) was so exemplary as to set a record which is probably unequaled in history.[2] The South, upon the other hand, was constantly under invasion, and the record of destruction wrought by northern armies in the valley of the Shenandoah, on the March to the Sea, and in some other instances, is writ in poverty and mourning unto this day.
[2] See chapter on Colonel Taylor and General Lee.
Thus, except politically, the North now feels not the least effect from the war.