Lee, the Confederate general ... against Black people in New York City during draft riots in 1863. The "Lost Cause" mythology that Lee now embodies took root, Thomas said, as a search for ...

Soon after the end of the war, reasons for why the Confederacy was just in its endeavors began cropping up. This is now known as the Lost Cause philosophy. In April of 1865, General Robert E.

Yet by the time he made those comments in 1869, the myth of the Lost Cause and its justifications for Confederate defeat were in full flower. And it was Lee — not President Jefferson Davis ...

A revisionist history that gained popularity in the 1890s, the Lost Cause recast the Confederacy’s humiliating defeat in a treasonous war for slavery as the embodiment of the Framers’ true ...

The Lost Cause offered former Confederates and their descendants a salve for the past. According to this mythology about the Civil War, the South was the victim, even in defeat. Confederate armies ...

And then, of course, there was the American South after the Civil War, when the narrative of the Confederate “lost cause” yielded a potent brew of twisted history and white supremacist ideology.

The Lost Cause narrative prevailed in America by, in essence, resorting to the oldest bully tactic in the book: Win by psychologically wearing down the opposition. Confederate sympathizers ...

With more than 700 Confederate statues remaining ... then an accurate American history could be a “lost cause” after all.

In this context, the myth of the Lost Cause came alive. It had its origins as a literary and political device in the immediate aftermath of the war. Then, some diehards championed the Confederate ...

Rewriting history was the goal. Mary Anna Lee, the widow of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, wanted a version of her husband’s life told. So she gave exclusive rights to prominent sculptor Edward ...