Clashing Perspectives Quotes
She was not alleging parity of the two sides here. While many of the military of the North tried to put the best face on battles, the Northern newspapers were actually savage about reporting Union casualties and battles lost—often exaggerating the ineptitude of the Union military leaders. In the South however, in most cases where there was a Union Victory the Southern papers reported it as a hard fought, high casualty, narrow victory for the South. The major Northern newspapers would also claim a Union victory hence her quotation. However, later she and many other educated Southerners really understood the that the South—all the institutions and most people tended to be in denial about the war. See {633930} for her more realistic view late the following year.
