Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War Final Campaign in North Carolina (Ernest A. Dollar Jr. - CH) photograph The story was suppressed during

The story was suppressed during the early decades of the 20th century by white supremacist attitudes

What powerful mystique did these battle-flags hold that caused ordinary men to perform almost super-human deeds

and significant modern conventional weapons

History’s wholesale acceptance of his version of events has distorted our assessment of Rosecrans and other officers

and introduces the important friends he made

Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War Final Campaign in North Carolina (Ernest A. Dollar Jr. - CH) photograph The story was suppressed duringMost people believe the end of the Civil War came at Appomattox with handshakes and amicable banter between Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grantan honorable ceremony amongst noble warriors. And so it has been remembered to this day. But the war did not end on April 9, 1865. A larger and arguably more important surrender had yet to take place in North Carolina. This part of the surrender story occupies but little space in the vast annals of Civil War