The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)

by Richard White

Henry Cabot Lodge had no patience with the nostalgic rewriting of the history of the Civil War. As he later said, “No good is ever done by falsifying the past. There was a right and a wrong in the Civil War… . The North was right and the right won.” Charles Hill of Illinois declared the Democrats’ suppression of the vote and fraud “a species of treason.”