Atdtda[4]: Veterans of the Rebellion.

[Monte Davis]

> The third narrator seems to have a much more darker voice.  
> "Rebellion", 
> then, could indicate an idea of a country not healed -but also, maybe 
> I'd suggest the author is drawing, albeit implicitly, moral lines.  
> Which I do not do, praeteritio-wise.

http://www.amazon.com/Race-Reunion-Civil-American-Memory/dp/0674008197

David Blight's _Race and Reunion_ details the price of the "healing": the
end of Reconstruction in political dealmaking surrounding the 1876 election;
northern acquiescence in the activities of the Klan and Jim Crow laws; the
popularity of the romanticized 'Lost Cause' view of the Confederacy from
Birth of a Nation through Gone With the Wind and beyond; at Gettysburg,  the
touching photographs of old antagonists shaking hands on the battlefield at
the 1888, 1913, and 1938(!) reunions. For that to happen, the "Rebellion"
had to become the less rancorous "Civil War" -- and the aftermath of slavery
had to be ignored as nearly as we could manage it for almost a century.