It Didn't Come Clean

De: Virgil Cain

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

To those born in the antebellum South, dying while draped in butternut gray was the only reasonable thing to do once the rebellion began. The son of a Virginia planter, running north to join with the Federals was not merely a rejection of everything that Gus McMaster knew; it was a betrayal of the first order, turning his back on his family despite knowing that his brothers would suit up and ride for the other side. So great was his desire to see his soul cleansed of the stain of slavery that he was willing to overturn every system from which he had benefited, even if it meant drawing arms against his own kin. A wiser man would have saved himself the trouble, knowing that stains don’t come clean when washed in the blood of a nation.