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In the movie True Grit, the character LaBeouf is very hostile towards Rooster Cogburn because of his associations with William Quantrill, despite being a former Confederate soldier himself. Was this a common opinion of ex-Confederates?

by /u/XenophonOfAthens in /r/AskHistorians

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