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and maimed about 1.2 million,
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and transformed the society.
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But no one was wrong.
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In fact, by the 1890s, as it is still today,
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it became very popular to be a Confederate veteran.
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If you've read Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic,
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he showed
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how so many Civil War re-enactors, it appears still today,
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prefer to re-enact Confederates than to re-enact Unionist,
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although there are lots of Union re-enactors;
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and there are now lots of black re-enactors.
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Which raises a fascinating intellectual question,