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Our Commemoration of the Civil War’s End Celebrates a Myth
It’s a damp, cloudy April afternoon on a muddy industrial park in Appomattox, Virginia, and—clad in the grays, golds, and reds of his Confederate officer’s uniform, Bill is giving me a short soliloquy on the joys of re-enacting America’s past. “I’m bringing history to life,” he said. “You bring the...
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Maybe a lot of people's commemorations are to myths. All I know is that every time I raise a glass to the March to the Sea, it's to a solemn fact.