Description NOTHING IN AMERICAN History has ever equaled the death and destruction of the intense and bloody warfare of 1861-1865 between Americans.
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For later generations, such a horror must have the comfort of a moral justification.
Given the size of the population at the time, that period is unmatched in the scale of military mobilization, in the destruction of property on our own soil, and in the casualties, not only of soldiers but of Southern civilians, black and white.
Description NOTHING IN AMERICAN History has ever equaled the death and destruction of the intense and bloody warfare of 1861-1865 between Americans