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Oddly, in this country, the losers wrote the History Books on the Civil WarThe victors write the history books. If it was the other way around, murderers and pillagers and arsonists like Sherman would have been hanged as war criminals.
The Lost Cause movement created a false history minimizing the impact of slavery and glorifying the leaders of the Confederacy
This revised history demonized Grant while turning Lee into a hero