American politics is the South's revenge for the Civil War.
--Garry Wills, in 1975, quoted by Sam Tanenhaus in "Original Sin: Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people", in the New Republic, February 2013.
The illustration is from "The Cavalry Fight at Brandy Station" [Virginia] in Three Years in the Federal Cavalry (1870), by Willard Glazier.
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