re: Was there still civil war resentment in the early 1900s

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A popular anecdote about the 50th "Reunion" of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913: The survivors organized themselves as best they could to re-enact Pickett's Charge - as the old Rebels gathered up (running from their late 60s to mid 80s) and did the Rebel Yell and started to charge, the Yanks poured down from Cemetary Ridge to embrace their former foes.

Imagine such graciousness and brotherly love today between the "warring" sides...

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But, by all means, a bunch of fricking pearl-clutchers with zero connection to these men are leading the charge to eradicate Confederate monuments.

Still no building at LSU named after WT Sherman!

I think by 1900 most people realized the war was an unnecessary, a mistake of Lincoln and had pretty much reconciled that both sides fought honorably although for no real purpose.

Hence the outrage today, by people that care nothing about reality only contemporary politics.

It would have been interesting to see a future where the south peacefully secedes. I reckon slavery would have been voluntarily ended by the 1890s, with mechanization. Perhaps you’d have seen a large African repatriation. A free black state even.

Regardless, you wouldn’t have had the destruction of the war and the further tragedy of reconstruction. An interesting topic.

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The US Army had real trouble recruiting in the south.

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A very, very old former Confederate Gen. Joseph Wheeler serving in the US Army during the Spanish-American War probably did a lot to help symbolically.

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I think by 1900 most people realized the war was an unnecessary, a mistake of Lincoln and had pretty much reconciled that both sides fought honorably although for no real purpose.

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That’s absurd. The war was inevitable.

And I’ve never heard anyone make that argument.

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A very, very old former Confederate Gen. Joseph Wheeler serving in the US Army during the Spanish-American War probably did a lot to help symbolically.

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I can’t speak to that. I’ve never read anything on that point.

Naming US Army installations after Confederate generals was an attempt to improve recruiting, and make the service more attractive to southerners.

Hell yes there was. In a lot of ways more hatred for yankees than during the war as those carpet baggers screwed us all post war.

Everybody should watch "Birth of a Nation" LINK. It was made in 1915 and was considered factually accurate. It is a story set in the time of reconstruction.

The KKK of that age I am told was much more accepted that the latter forms of it.

White men that served in the CSA could not hold office so most white people couldn't vote or hold office. Suddenly in the South there was this population of starving, uneducated people that had never had to even feed themselves that could now vote and hold office. Carpetbaggers took advantage of this by imposing he taxes on land owners and the like. They would then buy the property at rigged tax sales.

From this time came a pardon for the whites and the subsequent power that came with their votes and Jim Crow laws.

I think the movie won an Oscar believe it to not. It was shown in the White House to Wilson.

In World War I, you had southern National Guard regiments that considered themselves continuations of Confederate regiments. They were called up to train and fight alongside the U.S. regiments whose history included fighting against the South. This included the sons and grandsons of Union and Confederate forces.