num_pages: 352
description: The former Confederate states have continually mythologized the Souths defeat to the North depicting the Civil War as unnecessary or as a fight over states Constitutional rights or as a David v. Goliath struggle in which the North waged total war over an underdog South. In The Myth of the Lost Cause historian Edward Bonekemper deconstructs this multi-faceted myth revealing the truth about the war that nearly tore the nation apart 150 years ago.
language: English
title: The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won
publisher: Regnery History