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Northern attitudes about liberty were no less passionate than Southern ones during the Civil War. Just as Southern soldiers saw themselves as upholding the spirit of 1776 by fighting for liberty (even if that included the “liberty” to own slaves), so Northern solders saw themselves as fighting to maintain the Union for whose independence their ancestors had died. Some appealed to specific historic symbolism—for instance, Fort Ticonderoga was the site of the first American victory in the Revolutionary War. The Connecticut schoolteacher writes more abstractly of “institutions” worth preserving, implicitly referring at least to the Constitution. And even the less…