The Myth of the Lost Cause :: American America History

The Myth of the Lost Cause Following the annihilation of the Confederacy and to lift the assurance of a broke people force accumulated to cherish the Myth of the Lost Cause which would change the Southern fighter living and dead, into a genuine saint. So as to grapple with rout and a look at of disappointment without flinching of God, Southerners intellectually changed their recollections of the before the war South. It turned into an unrivaled human progress of incredible virtue which had been merciless brought somewhere around the materialistic Yankees. At the leader of this restoration was the memory of Stonewall Jackson, firmly followed by Robert E. Lee (who might ascend to the unmistakable position following his passing in 1870). Different officers of the Confederacy who had kicked the bucket during the war followed, as did the individuals who might pass on later. D.H. Slope, a companion of Longstreet distributed LAND WE LOVE, a magazine committed to Literature, Military History and Agriculture. In 1869 Hill sold out to a Baltimore periodical, NEW ECLECTIC, which around the same time turned into the SOUTHERN MAGAZINE, official organ of the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. In 1871 it changed its name toward the SOUTHERN MAGAZINE and along with a later periodical, SOUTHERN BIVOUAC kept the memory of the War alive and new in the open psyche. Loaded up with sonnets and accounts of steadfastness to the LOST CAUSE sent in by veterans. Slope was Stonewall Jackson's brother by marriage and he filled the magazine with stories, tales and sonnets of the now incredible general. Other Confederate saints got a lot of consideration from a surge of material provided by perusers celebrating Southern dead and utilizing religion to clarify the thrashing. Book - composing was productive during the '70s and '80s mostly from veterans however much on the sentimental ism of the Cause from ladies. The most noticeable of the essayist of the period was John Esten Cooke, who was connected by birth and union with for all intents and purposes all the conspicuous groups of Virginia he cherished the Confederate dead into chivalric knights and images of the LOST CAUSE. Cooke's great abstract yield spellbound Southern view of the War changing the disgrace of annihilation into a symbol of respect that Confederate veterans could wear gladly. His depiction of the War as an awesome experience, wherein interest was a respect. At the point when Lee kicked the bucket on 12 Oct. 1870 he was one of a critical number of Confederate saints running second to Jackson.