Response to C of C

My first reaction to Cats of the Confederacy was "these people are crazy." I couldn't understand why these group of people couldn't leave the past behind. I started to look into the reading more deeply and realized that these people used the Civil War as a connection between them and their family members. They have may have taken the aspect of the civil war too far for today but I could definitely see why they still believed in the war. I thought Tony Horwitz was very respectable to the individuals that he met yet when he wrote about them you could definitely tell that he thought some things were outright outrageous too, like the actual "cats of the confederacy" and "children of the confederacy". The whole time that I was reading this chapter in the book I kept thinking I was reading observations from 50-100 years ago. It seemed so old timey and as if the war had just ended. (I'm guessing that was the point Horwitz was trying to get across). One thing that I really enjoyed about this chapter was when Tarlton was talking to Tony and said the the sons of the confederacy was a place where many different individuals, such as doctors and farmers, acted as one and were all so respectable to each other. I really like how although these groups are so strict they are an opportunity for different people to come together.