when i got to the point in our history book, gettiesburg. this discovery made me depressed for days. his piece the lost cause knew southern history. this becomes sort of the dominant intellectual narrative that will drive southerners and the remembrance of the american civil war. they're going to do this by writing text books about the civil war. when you get to that chapter on the civil war, you're going to read those sorts of things about the american civil war, not what you will be reading in northern text books during the war. you would also see this embodied in monumenteds. like we saw at shiloh. shiloh according to that monument, because albert sydney johnson died and it got dark. that was the reason. it was those elements itself. you will go to the battle to see that and be able to understand that particular interpretation. slavery is not the cause of the american civil war. african-americans were faithful slaves. they supported the confederate cause. they were not prepared for freedom. they may not even wanted to be free individuals.