The myth of the lost cause and Civil War history
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The myth of the lost cause and Civil War history
Indiana University Press, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederate States in the Civil War was and is an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of southerners to rationalise the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, for historical truth and the national memory, these skilful propagandists, beginning with Jubal Early, have been so successful that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own and continues to misrepresent what really happened, distorting the national memory in the process. In this book, nine historians analyse the Lost Cause, describing its content and identifying its falsity. The work is thus a major contribution to Civil War historiography.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Gary W. Gallagher The Anatomy of the Myth, Alan T. Nolan Jubal A. Early, The Lost Cause and Civil War History, A Persistent Legacy, Gary W. Gallagher Is Our Love for Wade Hampton Foolishness?: South Carolina and the Lost Cause, Charles J. Holden These Few Gray-haired, Battle Scarred Veterans: Confederate Army Reunions in Georgia (1885-1895), Keith S. Bohannon New South Visionaries: Virginia's Last Generation of Slaveholders: The Gospel of Progress and the Lost Cause, Peter J. Carmichael James Longstreet and the Lost Cause, Jeffrey D. Wert Continuous Hammering and Mere Attrition: Lost Cause Critics and the Military Reputation of Ulysses S. Grant, Brooks D. Simpson Let the People See the Old Life as It Was: Lasalle Corbell Pickett and the Myth of the Lost Cause, Lesley J. Gordon The Immortal Confederacy: Another Look at Lost Cause Religion, Lloyd A. Hunter
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