Doubleday believed that in supporting slavery, Anderson—like many in the South—had fallen out of step with the great global shift that had driven the North and the advanced societies of Europe to reclassify it as a wholly repulsive moral wrong. “He could not read the signs of the times, and see that the conscience of the nation and the progress of civilization had already doomed slavery to destruction,” Doubleday wrote. Anderson saw himself “more like an arbiter between two contending nations than a simple soldier engaged in carrying out the instructions of his superiors.”
