it in t the union soldiers, they were going home with victory.dogwoo they couldds see in the red bud enewal and dogwood to follow the renewal of spring, the renewal of their country the renewal of the spirit life they were beginning to survive, most of st hav them. for the african-american former slaves, they must have seen something only unique to them inve bee the red bud. did n they might not haveot known about redemption yet. they did not know where they knew life was going yet, but they knew they had just experienced tremendous change of their lives.ewal of so that renewal of spring means a new beginning like no other. in now, in magnificent essay pamphlet, robert, the great southern poet, novelist, historian, said many quotable things in legacy of the civil many gre war, still the best book to start with, ifst you have not read anything about the memory of this event first start with red warren's i legacy of the civil war, 1961, but in it he says the it he civil war, quote draws us as an oracle darkly unriddled and poe pretentious of national as well a asmo personal faith. that's a mo