Final Analysis Of 'The Myth Of The Lost Cause'

The Myth of the Lost Cause was edited by Gary Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan, and other several editors have taken the challenge of a difficult task of trying to summarize of what happened in the end of numerous of misrepresentations of this historic event. The book has a total 9 essays, giving me a different kind of reading style and showing its precision in showing it. I think what the editors were trying to convey was that the final analysis of the book is trying to explain how the Lost Cause myth was created and how it is still in effect to our national memory of the Civil War. The “Lost Cause” was phase that was used describing how various given their own viewpoints of describing the Civil War from how it was so biased and the process of how

I think it was the best essays out of the nine because it actually obliterates the arguments of the neo- Confederates, and went into depth that not only that secession was not all about slavery. The very core main event of the myth is that it was revolving around that the war was fighting for states’ rights rather than slavery, and how the Southern army surpasses the Northern army. I think it is a very important of reading of this kind of topics for the people who are not unaware of the Lost Cause but also calling out to people, who originate the myth were accused of being liars. I found this chapter was the most interesting for myself because I find it amazing how he could be able to solve the myth of the Lost Cause, almost like a mystery case, he provided the evidence and solved the case. It also provided me the overall information of how people can just believe whatever it be told like “my mind is made up” kind of deal. Together with your lectures and the essays were a perfect combination of learning about the Civil War but behind the

Early described the winner general Ulysses Grant as an unskilled killer because it was his indecisiveness circumstances that him a winner, that he did not really truly deserved it. After the fight for generalship of Grant, the person who lost it was Robert E. Lee in an unjustifiable position to the South. Since Early has a big passionate interest of how people are going to judge the Confederacy and he is a huge fan of Robert E. Lee ever since the very beginning of the Civil War. These are many of the ideas that contribute in the Myth of the Lost Cause for explaining how the secession and the defeat of the Confederate were spread around throughout the years of the Civil War. Early has an important role in how he shaped history differently, he wanted to leave a legacy for the South and that they should not be