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19. Joseph Foster Lovering, Services for the Use of the Grand Army of the Republic (Boston: Headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1881), 14; Barbara Gannon, The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011), 25–26.

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22. Richard M. McMurry, “The War We Never Finished,” Civil War Times Illustrated 28 (November/ December 1989): 62–67; Grady, “The New South,” in J. Chandler Harris, Life of Henry W. Grady, Including His Writings and Speeches (New York: Cassell, 1890), 82–93.

23. Randolph, “The Good Old Rebel,” Poems (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1898), 30.

24. Cumming, Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse, 292.

25. Pollard, The Lost Cause, 729; Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture (New York: Knopf, 1991), 102–21.

26. The Promise of the New South, 8, 37, 42, 77, 146, 102–4, 110–11, 137–46.

27. Paul Gaston, The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976), 202–3.

28. Thomas Dixon, The Leopard’s Spots (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1902), 439, 446.

29. Connelly, The Marble Man, 95; Pryor, Reading the Man, 449–53; Thomas Connelly and Barbara Bellows, God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982), 73–75, 82–83.

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32. Read, “Sheridan’s Ride,” in A Summer Story: Sheridan’s Ride, and Other Poems (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1865), 75–77.

33. Kathleen Diffley, Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861–1876 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992), 5, 76; Roger G. Kennedy, “Mourning a National Casualty,” Civil War Times Illustrated 27 (March 1988): 34–38, 45–46.

34. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 633–34, 635.

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36. “Hall of Congress, Richmond, April 6, 1865,” in Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent, 294–97; William Howard Day, in Celebration by the Colored People’s Educational Monument Association, in Memory of Abraham Lincoln on the Fourth of July, 1865, in the Presidential Grounds (Washington, DC: McGill and Witherow, 1865), 18; Mrs. H. R. Butler, “Progress of the Negro Woman of the South,” in Thirty-First Anniversary Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation Held Under the Auspices of the Negro Literary and Historical Society on January 1, 1894 at Bethel A.M.E. Church (Atlanta: Chas. P. Boyd, 1894), 10.

37. T. S. Clarkson, “Committee on School Histories,” in Journal of the Thirtieth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, St. Paul, Minn., September 3rd, 4th and 5th, 1896 (Indianapolis, IN: Wm. H. Burford, 1896), 10, 234.

38. Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at the Twenty-First Meeting, Held at Toledo, Ohio, September 5th and 6th, 1888 (Cincinnati: Society of the Army of the Tennessee, 1893), 145; Stan Cohen, Hands Across the Wall: The 50th and 75th Reunions of the Gettysburg Battle (Charleston, WV: Pictorial Histories Pub. Co., 1982), 40.

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40. Douglass, “Unknown Loyal Dead” (1871), in Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself (Hartford, CT: Park, 1882), 506.

41. David W. Blight, “For Something Beyond the Battlefield’: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of the Civil War,” in Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the American Civil War (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), 105–6, 14; Edward T. Linenthal,