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Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War - 063 - Then And Now: The Lost Cause

06/30/23 • 61 min

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About this episode:

It was January 1872. In Lexington, Virginia and on the campus of recently re-named Washington and Lee College, former Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early was on a mission: a mission to venerate Robert E. Lee, and to give Southerners a positive spin on their defeat - not only to address the recent past, but to arm them and their descendants with, as he and his disciples put it, a “correct” narrative of the war. This is the story of an ideology that simmers even to this day. This is the story of the creation and foundations of the Lost Cause.

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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:

Patrick Cleburne

Jubal Anderson Early

James Longstreet

Albert Sidney Johnston

Philip Sheridan

Frederick Douglass

For Further Reading:

The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History by Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan

Get The Guide:

Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.

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Producer: Dan Irving

06/30/23 • 61 min

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