Hearts Torn Asunder

“This study goes beyond the military aspects to examine the psychological and emotional impacts on the participants, both military and civilian.” — Charles R. Knight, author of From Arlington to Appomattox   One day after General Robert E. Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865, more than 120,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were still in the field bringing war with them as they moved across North Carolina’s verdant heartland. Thousands of paroled Rebels, desperate, distraught, and destitute, a