With the exception of the date and the prose style, these artifacts could easily be found in an exhibit on our current wars. Which brings one back to the power of this show: the countless faces of soldiers, black and white, youthful and grizzled, Confederate and Union, confronting viewers with the humanity that Whitman described. The faces are so familiar, and the looks so universal, that the past elides into the present. These are the same men who today serve America in Afghanistan and Iraq. The dangers they face, the courage they summon, and the sacrifices that they and their families make are the same. And of course the hell of war remains, as always.
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