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created Gettysburg National Military Park

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but none he dreaded more than telling his two youngest sons

Black Confederates

and conversing with hundreds of Northern and Southern soldiers from corps commanders all the way down to privates

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (David W. Blight - CH) tea service created Gettysburg National Military Parkby David W. Blight Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Winner of the Merle Curti award Winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race