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This <project> is reserved for genealogical members of Civil War (CSA) veterans.
The initial purpose is to list adherents who actually fought in the Civil War and then later espoused "Lost Cause" views after Appomattox.
I suggest NOT adding
Others, such as more modern proponents should be collected in an as yet uncreated sub-project if so desired.
~• wikipedia: "It was the articles written by General Jubal A. Early in the 1870s for the Southern Historical Society that firmly established the Lost Cause as a long-lasting literary and cultural phenomenon. The 1881 publication of The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by ex-Confederate President Jefferson Davis, a two-volume defense of the Southern cause, provided another important text in the history of the Lost Cause. Davis blamed the enemy for "whatever of bloodshed, of devastation, or shock to republican government has resulted from the war".
Tenets
"The Lost Cause legend includes the assertion that slavery was not the main dispute between the North and the South and was not the cause of secession. The myth claims that it was merely a matter of time before the South would have given up slavery by its own choice, and that it was the trouble-making abolitionists who manufactured disagreement between the regions. Enslaved African Americans were characterized as faithful and happy.[45][46]"
"A nationalistic basis for Lost Cause rhetoric is the notion that Southerners were descended from the Norman knights of William the Conqueror, "a race [...] renowned for its gallantry, chivalry, its honour, its gentleness, and its intellect".[47][48] Lost Cause advocates try to rationalize the Confederate military defeat with the assertion that the South had not actually been defeated; rather, it had been unfairly overcome by the massive manpower and resources of the deceitful Yankees. Contradictorily, they also maintain that the South would have won the war if it had prevailed in the battle at Gettysburg, and that it lost because of Stonewall Jackson's death in 1863 and the failure of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet."