The Lost Cause Quotes

“They saw themselves as champions of the Lost Cause--the creed, dominant among Southern whites, that proclaimed that the Confederate cause was righteous and would be vindicated; that Reconstruction was a travesty; and that the racial caste system must persist. [Jubal] Early and his ilk positioned Lee as the symbolic embodiment of the Lost Cause, and they worked relentlessly to immortalize him as a saintly, faultless, marble man/”
― Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South