Stories & Essays: At War with Ourselves

Holding flags, Dave Redden, left, and Frederick Bird wait for the rest of their group to cross the Potomac River on foot one Saturday in August. The Potomac, rocky and at parts waist-deep, forms the border between Virginia and Maryland. For 13 years, the Sons of Confederate Veterans have commemorated the Army of Northern Virginia’s 1862 crossing into Maryland.
Holding flags, Dave Redden, left, and Frederick Bird wait for the rest of their group to cross the Potomac River on foot one Saturday in August. The Potomac, rocky and at parts waist-deep, forms the border between Virginia and Maryland. For 13 years, the Sons of Confederate Veterans have commemorated the Army of Northern Virginia’s 1862 crossing into Maryland.