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Ghosts of the Confederacy - Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South 1865 to 1913 (Paperback)
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Ghosts of the Confederacy - Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South 1865 to 1913 (Paperback)
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After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign
the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at
last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted
into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs, personal
papers, and postwar Confederate rituals such as memorial day
observances, monument unveilings, and veterans' reunions, Ghosts of
the Confederacy probes into how white southerners adjusted to and
interpreted their defeat and explores the cultural implications of
a central event in American history. Foster argues that, contrary
to southern folklore, southerners actually accepted their loss,
rapidly embraced both reunion and a New South, and helped to foster
sectional reconciliation and an emerging social order. He traces
southerners' fascination with the Lost Cause--showing that it was
rooted as much in social tensions resulting from rapid change as it
was in the legacy of defeat--and demonstrates that the public
celebration of the war helped to make the South a deferential and
conservative society. Although the ghosts of the Confederacy still
haunted the New South, Foster concludes that they did little to
shape behavior in it--white southerners, in celebrating the war,
ultimately trivialized its memory, reduced its cultural power, and
failed to derive any special wisdom from defeat.
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