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WKU Historians Reflect on the End of the "Age of Innocence" in the Civil War

By Dan Modlin

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wkyu/local-wkyu-973844.mp3

Bowling Green, Ky – Western Kentucky University Historians Jack Thacker and Glenn LaFantasie say many Americans underestimated the immense human toll the Civil War would take. They say many people in the North and South had unrealistic expectations about how long the war would last, and how many lives it would claim. Dan Modlin talks with them....