Reenactments Quotes

“This, too, was an aspect of the twentieth century that [Civil War] reenactors were fleeing: a heterogeneous society still raw with historic wounds and racial sensitivities. In principle, remembrance of the War could be a way to probe these scars, many of which trailed back to the 1860s. But reenactments did precisely the opposite, blandly reconciling North and South in a grand spectacle that glorified battlefield valor and the stoicism of civilians.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War