Following the defeat of the Confederacy and to lift the morale of a shattered people momentum gathered to enshrine the Myth of the Lost Cause which would transform the Southern soldier living and dead, into a veritable hero. ... Filled with poems and stories of loyalty to the LOST CAUSE sent in by veterans. ... Book – writing was prolific in the ‘70s & ‘80s mainly from veterans but much on the romanticism of the Cause from women.
The most prominent of the writer of the period was John Esten Cooke, who was related by birth and marriage to virtually all the prominent families of Virginia he helped enshrine the Confederate dead into chivalric knights and symbols of the LOST CAUSE. ... Lee emerged as a sort of snow-white, pure hero that Southerners embracing the rationale of the LOST CAUSE had come to expect. ... By using this tactic they focused first the South and then national interest on the Battle of Gettysburg creating the myth that it was the turning point of the War. ...
In 1918 the release of the movie BIRTH OF A NATION probably achieved more to aid the MYTH than even Jubal Early or John Gordon and over the intervening years the MYTH of the LOST CAUSE has assumed reality and is accepted as fact nowadays.
The fact that the MYTH of the LOST CAUSE found its basis in Jubal Early’s ego which was to build him into something he wasn’t, A GOOD SOLDIER. ... As more and more organizations were formed in the South to extol the memory of the Confederacy the MYTH became fact and is now accepted.
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