The Traitors Wore Blue

Written By D. Jonathan White

Critics of things Confederate these days love to throw around the "T word" (treason). One hears all the time, "Confederates were traitors, blah, blah, blah." It was not always so.

After the war, units on both sides held reunions. During Reconstruction and shortly thereafter, these were sometimes bitter partisan affairs. (1) By the 1870s and 1880s, passio…