If in 1861 an officer of the army had entertained the opinion that the North was in the wrong and that the South was in the right, it could be claimed, fairly, that that officer might forswear his obligations to the old Government and accept service in the Confederacy.
Boutwell discusses the moral implications for officers who might have supported the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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