![]() ![]() Its legislature voted not to secede, and early in the war, Confederate Gen. We are still digging ourselves out from under the misinformation that they spread, which has manifested in both our history books and our public monuments. ![]() The Confederates won with the pen (and the noose) what they could not win on the battlefield: the cause of white supremacy and the dominant understanding of what the war was all about. Their resulting mythology went national a generation later and persists - which is why a presidential candidate can suggest that slavery was somehow pro-family, and the public believes that the war was mainly fought over states’ rights. As soon as Confederates laid down their arms, some picked up their pens and began to distort what they had done, and why. Not so in the United States, at least not regarding the Civil War. History is the polemics of the victor, William F. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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