In the Civil War, Whose Side Was the Republican Party On?!

Some Southern Members of Congress Apparently Haven’t Gotten Over the Civil War (Jonathan Chait) from New York Magazine
"Mr. Kind [a sponsor for Cushing’s Medal of Honor] said some Southern colleagues were also less than enthusiastic. “There was some resistance to awarding a Union soldier the congressional medal at Gettysburg even 150 years after the fact,” Mr. Kind said."
"Southern colleagues" = southern Republicans. It nearly completes the arc of the modern GOP where they really ARE now the 21st century version of the Democrats of the 1850s.