The Week in Confederate Heritage Bina Thorsen This week we begin with this opinion piece. "In a written statement on the anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, President Trump described the Confederacy’s defeat in 1865 as the end of 'four brutal years of suffering.' Rather than…
The Week in Confederate HeritageBina Thorsen This week we begin with this opinion piece. "In a written statement on the anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, President Trump described the Confederacy’s defeat in 1865 as the end of 'four brutal years of suffering.' Rather than condemn the Confederacy’s treason or name slavery as the cause for which it fought, Mr. Trump quoted Ulysses Grant’s remarks to the vanquished army: 'The war is over. The rebels are our countrymen again.' Rebranding rebellion is nothing new. Americans take it for granted that the war between the Confederate states and the Union was always called the Civil War, but it was not.studycivilwar2.wordpress.com