the naïveté that had marked the attitudes of both sides in the months after Lincoln’s election, with both convinced that any war between North and South would be brief and tidy, spilling only enough blood “to fill a lady’s thimble.” They knew only what limited war looked like and lacked the visual memory and lexical tools to imagine a conflagration that would deposit corpses in their gardens, on their streets, and among the cotton bolls of their plantations.
Their Cornfields, Wheatfields, Peach Orchards, Farms, Hills, Knolls, Creeks, Rivers, etc. Use in video series.
