NYTimes - Celebrating the Civil War in the South

Celebrating Secession Without the Slaves

Erik S. Lesser for The New York Times

Camille Love, Atlanta’s director of cultural affairs, above, with Yakingma Robinson,
an official at the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum, which is being refurbished.

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Published: November 29, 2010

ATLANTA — The Civil War, the most wrenching and bloody episode in American history, may not seem like much of a cause for celebration, especially in the South

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