. Civil War officers. Confederate . e happened aboutthe institution of slavery, I dont think it might have ultimately disap-peared and possibly without some of theviolence which was to come with Recon-struction, but who can say? Q) Would life in the South be better? A) How could life in the South be bet-ter? I dont know whether it would havebeen better or worse. I suspect for atime it would have been better. Theywould have avoided the evils of Recon-struction. But they had already com-mitted a lot of evils in the name of thewar. The South at the end of the war-before the war was over, l
. Civil War officers. Confederate . e happened aboutthe institution of slavery, I dont think it might have ultimately disap-peared and possibly without some of theviolence which was to come with Recon-struction, but who can say? Q) Would life in the South be better? A) How could life in the South be bet-ter? I dont know whether it would havebeen better or worse. I suspect for atime it would have been better. Theywould have avoided the evils of Recon-struction. But they had already com-mitted a lot of evils in the name of thewar. The South at the end of the war-before the war was over, lets say righttoward the end, in late 64 and 65—theSouth was not the South of 1860. It had gone a long way down the roadtoward abandoning its principles of staterights, abandoning its laissez faire eco-nomical ideas. It had gone on the roadtoward centralization, toward the mech-anisms necessary to conduct a totalwar. It had gone to the draft before theUnited States did. It had passed laws tomanage the economy, fix prices, regulate. LEE AND HIS GENERALS—Robert E. Lee, in whom, FrankVandiver says, the legend came closer to matching the fact than inany Civil War figure, sits astride his famed horse, Traveler, surroundedby his generals. Arranged about Lee, in this romantic 1867 lithographby Charles P. and Augustus Tholey, are, starting at the left, BraxtonBragg, John C. Pemberton, P. G. T. Beauregard, Fitzhugh Lee, J. E. B. Stuart, Wade Hampton, Joseph E. Johnston, Jubal A. Early, A. , A. S. Johnston, E. K. Smith, Lee, William J. Hardee,James Longstreet, Nathan Bedford Forrest, J. B. Hood, A. P. Hill,T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson, John H. Morgan, R. S. Ewell and LeonidasPolk. The picture is from American Battle Art, published by theLibrary of Congress in 1947. commerce with the outside world, ofwhich there was too little, of course, toregulate blockade running. The ideas—although state rights did a great deal tohamper the war effort, probably did themost damage of an
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