The battle: "until every Negro has been slaughtered" -- The lost cause: maintaining the antebellum hierarchy -- Virginia's reconstruction: William Mahone, "hero of the Crater" -- Reinforcing the status quo: reenactment and Jim Crow -- Whites only: the ascendancy of an interpretation -- Competing memories: Civil War and civil rights -- Moving forward: integrating a Black counter-memory.
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