[geeks] I just saw...

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Nov 13, 2006, at 9:46 PM, Brian Dunbar wrote:
>
>> From what I've read the soldiers - and Generals - on both sides were 
>> of
> like minds; the war is over, we're all family again and let's put this
> foolish stuff behind us.  The Union army in many places kept former
> Confederate officials in office, used former officers to run things and
> so on.  No reason why not - they  already knew how things were run and 
> why.
>

Dunno if attribution is messed up, but:

one of the interesting things is that after the war, huge amounts of 
information was collected and put into literally an entire bookshelf 
full of books.  People from both sides participated.

--Patrick