Caroline Janney
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
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Union soldiers wanted one more big battle where they absolutely annihilated Confederates.
Instead, the Confederates get to march home, much as they marched off to war.
And they are convinced, and Lee tells them, that you didn't lose the war so much as you were overwhelmed by Northern resources, by Northern materiel, and by mercenaries.
The Lost Cause was incredibly powerful as an explanation for white southerners about what they fought for and why they lost.
And they didn't just need to tell themselves that.
They needed to tell their children and their grandchildren.
And so The Lost Cause was about looking forward, about explaining to future generations what you had fought for and...
Saying what you hadn't fought for, which increasingly over the 19th century, they're going to say the war was never about slavery.
We didn't go to war to protect slavery.
When you look at everything they're saying in 1861, it is absolutely about slavery.
So it's trying to put the best spin on it.
This is something that becomes part of the ethos of the white South.
This is what's in textbooks that some of the biggest segregationists are reading.
This is what they learn as children.
And so we can't understand race relations in the United States in the 20th century or even in the 21st century without understanding how the way the past and especially
how the discussions of slavery and the Civil War have been leveraged for political and social reasons throughout that time.
It didn't just end in 1865.
25% of white Southern men of military age died during the war.
It was absolutely catastrophic.
Of course, 4 million enslaved people are freed by the war.
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