How did the Civil War come to be remembered by the 1890s as the white North and South moved toward reconciliation?

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By the 1890s, the white North and South had largely reconciled, and in doing so, they downplayed the role of African Americans in the Civil War. The dominant narrative became one of a tragic family quarrel among white Americans, in which blacks played no significant part. This was part of a larger trend in which white Americans sought to erase the memory of the Civil War as a struggle for black freedom and to justify the implementation of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

How Did the Civil War Come to Be Remembered by the 1890s