Thank you for this piece of history, especially Gen. Butterfield's sensitivity and creativity in composing "Taps." However, I find one piece of this history, the Reunion at Gettysburg, to be incomplete in this simplified version. For WHITE Union and Confederate veterans -- and by extension -- the Union and former Confederate states to reconcile, the nation twisted the reasons for the Civil War, obscuring slavery over which it was fought. The government , including the Supreme Court, and late 19th-mid 20th century historians chose "states’ rights" as the cause. of the War In the process, white supremacy justified Jim Crow discrimination and the rise of the KKK. The "day is not done" until equal civil and human rights for all are confirmed and celebrated.
Thank you for this piece of history, especially Gen. Butterfield's sensitivity and creativity in composing "Taps." However, I find one piece of this history, the Reunion at Gettysburg, to be incomplete in this simplified version. For WHITE Union and Confederate veterans -- and by extension -- the Union and former Confederate states to reconcile, the nation twisted the reasons for the Civil War, obscuring slavery over which it was fought. The government , including the Supreme Court, and late 19th-mid 20th century historians chose "states’ rights" as the cause. of the War In the process, white supremacy justified Jim Crow discrimination and the rise of the KKK. The "day is not done" until equal civil and human rights for all are confirmed and celebrated.