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| | The Lost Cause |
 | | In the wars wake, and amid a national resurgence of racism that rendered reconciliation among whites easier, most Northerners joined in the celebration of the Confederate soldiers. |
 | | Not all historians embraced such explanations; over the course of the century scholars attributed the war to a conflict of civilizations, a blundering generation, the collapse of the political party system, and a host of other factors. |
 | | For them the Civil War brought not defeat but deliverance from slavery They gloried not in Confederate legions but in their ancestors participation in a Union army that brought emancipation, which many fl communities after the war, and into the present, celebrated on January 1, June 19, or various other dates. |
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