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Our panel this time around. The first thing we will talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry. To begin that i would like all of you to discuss what loyal meant in the context of the effort during the war. I will start. One of the members of this audience came up and asked me to make sure there were more jokes. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level i think these concepts are very tried together tied together. Union loyalty and sacrifice patriotism and union loyalty. It...

Our panel this time around. The first thing we will talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry. To begin that i would like all of you to discuss what loyal meant in the context of the effort during the war. I will start. One of the members of this audience came up and asked me to make sure there were more jokes. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level i think these concepts are very tried together tied together. Union loyalty and sacrifice patriotism and union loyalty. It...

Our panel this time around. The first thing we will talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry. To begin that i would like all of you to discuss what loyal meant in the context of the effort during the war. I will start. One of the members of this audience came up and asked me to make sure there were more jokes. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level i think these concepts are very tried together tied together. Union loyalty and sacrifice patriotism and union loyalty. It...

Our panel this time around. The first thing we will talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry. To begin that i would like all of you to discuss what loyal meant in the context of the effort during the war. I will start. One of the members of this audience came up and asked me to make sure there were more jokes. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level i think these concepts are very tried together tied together. Union loyalty and sacrifice patriotism and union loyalty. It...

Our panel this time around. The first thing we will talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry. To begin that i would like all of you to discuss what loyal meant in the context of the effort during the war. I will start. One of the members of this audience came up and asked me to make sure there were more jokes. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level i think these concepts are very tried together tied together. Union loyalty and sacrifice patriotism and union loyalty. It...

Our panel this time around. The first thing we will talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry. To begin that i would like all of you to discuss what loyal meant in the context of the effort during the war. I will start. One of the members of this audience came up and asked me to make sure there were more jokes. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level i think these concepts are very tried together tied together. Union loyalty and sacrifice patriotism and union loyalty. It...

Our panel this time around. The first thing we will talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry. To begin that i would like all of you to discuss what loyal meant in the context of the effort during the war. I will start. One of the members of this audience came up and asked me to make sure there were more jokes. [laughter] i will try. I think at a very basic level i think these concepts are very tried together tied together. Union loyalty and sacrifice patriotism and union loyalty. It...

Gary is it fine not to put on a blue uniform . [laughter] i dont want everyone to talk at once. In the first rush to the colors, there is no conscription, of course, on either side. The absolute majority of all men on both sides were true volunteers. They went in before there was conscription. The Confederate States have been established. The nation is raising armies to repress the rebellion. Can you be a loyal male citizen and not offer military service . Joan the answer is yes. I am still thin...

Voters. Gary i want to move to Something Else here. And that is how did proponents of what we will call the union memory of the war, the war that did this and did that, how did that play out the rest of the 19th century . While the wartime generation lived . Everyone knows about lost cause monuments in the former confederacy. We have four of them in silence filled in charlottesville. We have a confederate statue in the University Library in the University Cemetery not in the library. Joan just i...

We have a confederate statue in the University Library in the University Cemetery not in the library. Joan just in your office. [laughter] gary i will be sending my resume around beginning on monday. [laughter] gary in the cemetery. John i think you succeeded more jokes. Gary they talked about the decoration day, confederate memorial day and so forth. What is going on in the way of commemorating the union cause while the wartime generation still lives . What are some of the things that went on ....