"Just like the goddamn winners of the Civil War have distorted real history, huh?"

[Procrustes Stretched]

"Just like the goddamn winners of the Civil War have distorted real history, huh?" - a question posed by a member of usmb

It always amazes me that defenders of what is called 'The Lost Cause' and the proponents of that cause forget much of the history is written by men born and raised in the South.

The Lost Cause​

SUMMARY
The Lost Cause is an interpretation of the American Civil War (1861–1865) that seeks to present the war from the perspective of Confederates and in the best possible terms. Developed by white Southerners, many of them former Confederate generals, in a postwar climate of economic, racial, and social uncertainty, the Lost Cause created and romanticized the “Old South” and the Confederate war effort, often distorting history in the process. For this reason, many historians have labeled the Lost Cause a myth or a legend. It is an important example of public memory, one in which nostalgia for the Confederate past is accompanied by a collective forgetting of the horrors of slavery. Providing a sense of relief to white Southerners who feared being dishonored by defeat, the Lost Cause was largely accepted in the years following the war by white Americans who found it to be a useful tool in reconciling North and South. The Lost Cause has lost much of its academic support but continues to be an important part of how the Civil War is commemorated in the South and remembered in American popular culture.

South Carolina Secession (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

Shelby Foote - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[rightwinger]

Who could imagine that the leaders of the Confederacy would be considered heroes?

 

[Donald H]

The outstanding issue of the civil war is being re-energized, due to racism hitting new higher levels of violence.

Trump's continuing existence on the political scene is highly dependent on keeping the south's hopes alive.

 

[jwoodie]

The Straw Men have spoken.

 

[whitehall]

The dirty little secret is that Yankee north east factories depended on Southern cotton production and helped finance the Union's subjugation of the South and the continuation of plantation system by democrats which still exists two hundred and fifty years later.

 

[LeroyDumonde]

Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley:

Executive Mansion,
Washington, August 22, 1862.

Hon. Horace Greeley:
Dear Sir.

I have just read yours of the 19th. addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptable in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right.

As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.

Yours,
A. Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln's Letter to Horace Greeley

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The dirty little secret is that Yankee north east factories depended on Southern cotton production and helped finance the Union's subjugation of the South and the continuation of plantation system by democrats which still exists two hundred and fifty years later.

Those wobblies in your brain are out of the cage again. TAke your meds.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Those wobblies in your brain are out of the cage again. TAke your meds.

I think he is thinking of Britain, then Britain discovered it could buy cotton for its mills from Egypt and India. Bye Bye CSA cotton industry.