" It's all too easy and too obvious for a Yankee to traipse into a Southern cemetery and cloth his Northern pearls. Robert Penn Warren called this instinct the 'treasury of virtue' - the white Northerner's feeling that, by dint of our affiliation with the Union, the great, emancipating army, well, then we were (and remained) morally upstanding, unimpeachably good. It was a feeling that could render us 'happy in forgetfulness' the Civil War like an event horizon beyond which our own pasts vanish. "

― , Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy