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God and General Longstreet : The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind
author
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Connelly, Thomas Lawrence.; Bellows, Barbara L.
publisher
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Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807120146
print isbn13
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9780807120149
ebook isbn13
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9780585289175
language
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English
subject
Confederate States of America--History, Southern States in literature, Longstreet, James,--1821-1904, Lee, Robert E.--(Robert Edward),--1807-1870.
publication date
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1982
lcc
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E487.C798 1982eb
ddc
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973.7/13
subject
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Confederate States of America--History, Southern States in literature, Longstreet, James,--1821-1904, Lee, Robert E.--(Robert Edward),--1807-1870.
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God and General Longstreet
The Lost Cause and The Southern Mind
Thomas L. Connelly and Barbara L. Bellows
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Copyright 1982 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designer: Joanna Hill Typeface: Trump Typesetter: G & S Typesetters, Inc. Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Connelly, Thomas Lawrence. God and General Longstreet. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Confederate States of AmericaHistory. 2. Southern States in Literature. 3. Longstreet, James, 18211904. 4. Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 18071870. I. Bel lows, Barbara L. II. Title. E487.C798 973.7'13 782-33
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
ISBN 0-8071-2014-6 (paper)
Louisiana Paperback Edition, 1995
04 03 02 01 00 99 5 4 3
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To the memory of T. Harry Williams
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Contents
Chapter One God and General Longstreet
1
Chapter Two How Virginia Won The Civil War
39
Chapter Three Robert E. Lee and The Southern Mind
73
Chapter Four The Enduring Memory
107
Note On Sources
149
Index
157
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Chapter One God and General Longstreet
Those who have written about the South have played carelessly with the term Lost Cause. Well over a century has passed since the Confederacy's demise, but the meaning of the phrase remains as elusive as the many varying images of the South itself. Few would question that the Civil War is, historically, the central element of the southern experience. However, by relating the approaching war to the slavery issue and the ensuing defeat to the lasting problem of race relations in Dixie one sees the war as the fomenter of attitudes south of the Mason-Dixon line.
So it is especially ironic, even in this region where history is beset by an overweening sense of irony, that the true meaning of the Lost Cause has remained so nebulous. Perhaps this provides further evidence of the truth in Robert Penn Warren's observation that the southern mind does not grasp abstractions well, but demands a sense of the concrete. Certainly there is nothing tangible in the spirit of the Lost Cause that has slipped blithely through the time and space of generations of southerners. Over the years the meaning has varied. Some writers have used it to describe the literary outpouring from that angry cadre of former-Rebel political and military luminaries, represented by such men as Jefferson Davis, Alexander H. Stephens, P. G. T. Beauregard. In the years after Appomattox, they labored to justify secession, defend unfortunate decisions, and
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rationalize defeat. These writers represented the "diehard" mentality evident in Dixie between 1865 and the Great War. This was the generation that raised shafts of Italian marble on the lawns of southern courthouses, marched feebly in everdecreasing numbers to the evocative drumbeats at Confederate reunions, and fought out the war in pitiable veterans' magazines. Despite hard times they always found money for their United Confederate Veterans dues or the opportunity to spend Wednesday afternoon with their gray-haired friends, United Daughters.
There is another, broader definition that has portrayed the Lost Cause as a timeless ideal, free of the limitations of space and time. Here the imagery has been used to encompass many things: the bitter, turgid political rationales penned by a sickly Jefferson Davis; hoarse Rebel yells in reunion halls filled with aged veterans; Thomas Nelson Page's Virginia "massa" with his ancient, wise, and ever-loyal servant; the Confederate flags still flying over southern capitals; or even the Rebel Band of Ole Miss as it proudly marches to the strains of "Dixie."
The origins of the phrase are easier to understand. Southern romanticism of the early nineteenth century had thrived upon Sir Walter Scott's accounts of the lost cause of Scotland in its quest for independence. An antebellum South embroiled in a power struggle with the "churlish Saxons" of Yankeedom could identify with a heroic Ivanhoe. Small wonder it was that the Rebel battleflag adopted the design of the Scottish St. Andrew's cross, or that Dixie writers during the Reconstruction era attempted to link the ancestry of Robert E. Lee with that of Robert the Bruce. The shrewd Ohio observer Albion Tourge speculated that "the down-fall of empire is always the epoch of romance."
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