Ethics Post #8

2. The Civil War brought turmoil to both the North and the South. In early Spring of 1865, towards the end of the war, Richmond dwellers found out that Petersberg had fallen. This news did little to stir the Richmond people to great energy. As Bruce Canton writes in his book Never Call Retreat, they took the news unusually. The mood was "nothing now but a restless, fruitless stirring...in the face of approaching catastrophe" (445). Canton stresses how that day came in as a "special sort of day," and that one woman admitted that she'd "never saw a calmer Sunday morning" (444).

Canton, Bruce. Never Call Retreat. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1965.