the South!" Many in attendance noted the irony of an ex-Confederate soldier and eminent New South spokesman offering his greetings to Union veterans. What many listeners may not have noticed, however, was the manner in which Watterson cast Kentucky's wartime position, even as he extended his wishes for sectional reconciliation. "You came, and we resisted you," he said of Kentucky's wartime response to men in blue, "you come and we greet you; for times change and men change with them. You will find here no sign of the battle; not a reminiscence of its passion. Grimvisaged war has smoothed his wrinkled front ...."