now, gettysburg, maybe he thought richard ewell was a little more like stonewall jackson. not opening that can of worms, though. did the lost cause due to early confederates? it filled a gap, a yearning. god has to be on our side. god is also on the other side. but why did the four years of war angle the way it did? why did the four years of war lead to our cities being destroyed, lead to now estimates over 300,000 confederate calvaries. -- casualties. another 32,000 confederates who would die within a year or two after the war of wounds received during the conflict. why did we lose? it is a great question. it is a question that we still, according to facebook, according to cnn, according to fox news, whatever news outlet. still the defining moment, why we continue to understand what happened in 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865. recently, a great historian who has written great books on the battlefield we are standing on now, on the campaign in 1864. gordon was asked -- how do you explain what had happened when one dastardly act in charleston passed? he said, what do you v