How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
How dared they laugh, the black apes! How dared they grin at her, Scarlett O'Hara of Tara! She'd like to have them all whipped until the blood ran down their backs. What devils the Yankees were to set them free, free to jeer at white people! (35.5)
The war and the Yankees are here linked pretty directly to racism. The evil of the war is that it upsets the racial caste system.
Quote #8
"And if they give the negroes the vote, it's the end of us. Damn it, it's our state! It doesn't belong to the Yankees! By God, Scarlett, it isn't to be borne! And it won't be borne! We'll do something about it if it means another war. Soon we'll be having n***** judges, n***** legislators—black apes out of the jungle—" (37.18)
This rather upends Rhett's statement that the war is about money. Tommy clearly says he is ready to have another war for specifically racist reasons. The terrorist violence of the KKK, a continuation of war by other means, is based on refusing to allow black people to gain political power. That is what the Civil War was based on as well.
Quote #9
"He—well, we figure he died like a soldier and in a soldier's cause." (39.10)
Gerald died after refusing to sign a loyalty oath to the Yankees. The fact that this was seen as dying in a soldier's cause indicates the way that the novel sees the Civil War continuing even after the actual fighting is over. The South is still fighting the North… and it doesn't necessarily lose. Which the novel sees as a good thing.