magazine and blogs for us, has been blogging a great deal about thes ive war is responding to the eggleston, but he what he sees as sanitizing of the history of the civil war in the south, that does treat it as a noble cause, a lost cause, a fight about civil rights -- states rights, rather than a fight about slavery and the effort to end the buying and selling of forced labor of human beings. his argument is basically whites in the north and south came together to kind of we won't talk about that on the 50th anniversary of the civil war woodrow wilson gives a speech. as a result, he's trying to reclaim this history for black americans as well as white americans. >> he makes a somewhat controversial point which you happen to agree with that tags a number of historians to task. the tradition is to talk about civil war as great tragedy and that's true. yet the outcome was unarguably good and moral. and partly, perhaps because a lot of blacks don't study it and partly because of the whitewashing, the focus on the meaning of the war and the tragedy or not or the nobleness of the lost cause gets