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This 3 page paper reviews the explanations provided by author Drew Gilpin Faust as to why the Civil War holds such an attraction. No additional sources are listed.
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it or even look forward to it in some way. A quote often attributed to Civil War General Robert E. Lee is that if war werent as terrible as
it is "we should grow too fond of it" (Faust). Although, as Faust points out, Lees precise words are not really known, the gist of this statement is clear.
However we construe his words, the "contradiction between wars attraction and its horror remains at the heart" of its meaning (Faust 369). Lee, of course, was specifically
commenting about the American Civil War, that bloody chapter in US history where one brother fought against another in a battle over what constituted state rights and what constituted federal
rights. That war, regardless of how horrific the outcome, is still a war that is thought of with a sense of fondness. Indeed, even in the day
it was being fought the Civil War was a war that was charged with emotional attachment. It was considered a war with noble causes, a war interlaced with the
heroism of self definition. Many, in fact, longed to prove their side of the argument that formed the basis of the Civil War. Those that supported
the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hailing it as a form of "divine purification", self sacrifice, as subordination
to a greater cause, and as a means to instill order in a chaotic time when no rules seemed to apply equally to all (Faust 370). Even when
confronted with the brutal realities of the slaughter and destruction the war really entailed, these types of justifications did not cease. Nor did the view that war was a
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