The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

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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