this is the largest civil war monument in the country, allcated in 1902 to hoosiers and everywhere they had five. including the spanish-american war. thatan see clearly here the plight of sleep -- freeing the slaves was essential to the message that union veterans wanted to remember in their central war memorial in indiana. this did not mean that most white union veterans or white northerners in general thought civil and political rights for african-americans. in recent years historians seemed to have forgotten that racism and remembering that slavery was part of the war did in fact go hand in hand for many union veterans. slavery in race for not interchangeable in the minds of white union veterans. when you to be careful about them today. althoughrap up, americans had come together in the dissent of the nation in so bythey had not done merely agreeing to remain silent on the memory of the civil war. or because of ideas about what supremacy. allowedpremacy had been out -- around a long time before 1898. the spanish-american war left the mixed legacy for the reconciliation for the age. f