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She has found tremendous evidence
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of what soldiers themselves did on battlefields to bury their own dead,
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and sometimes even bury the enemy,
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to give people decent, human burials
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after they'd been half eaten by dogs.
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Nothing like burying a dead man without a coffin,
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on a battlefield that you've known,
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will make you pray and beg to be reconciled with something.
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But a second kind of Civil War memory, if we can call it that,
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was the white supremacist memory,
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which took many forms early, including, of course,
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the terror and violence of the Klan and its many imitators,