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Leaders of the Lost Cause New Perspectives on the Confederate High Command is a two hundred and ninety four page book edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Joseph T. Glatthaar. In 2004 it was published by STACKPOLEBOOKS. This book is a collection of essays that describes eight Confederate generals. In this collection of essays the reader is presented with a new perspective concerning the decisions and lives of these eight Confederate generals. In this book the reader learns that without each general making the careful decisions they did the life many Americans know today many not exist. While each of these eight men fought for the same cause, in this book the reader will learn they also were involved with each other in a multitude of ways .
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It relates in one way to the course because the course covers content from pre-history through the Civil War . In this course we are currently learning about the succession of South Carolina from the United States in 1860. I feel this book, Leaders of the Lost Cause does also align the HIS-131 course mainly because it covers events and important figures during the civil war which is a very important part of early American history. The Civil War represents how America has changed over the years and how different groups of people were treated as well as how society has adapted to these different groups and/or resented …show more content…

For example, the Charlottesville hate rally that occurred September 16 of 2017 demonstrated the still raw emotion that is present regarding the period of slavery . While I do believe that these things are wrong, erasing history is not an option. We as Americans are not able to erase things from our past. All thing that have happened in this nations is our history and cannot be changed. As Americans, we should use these questionable decisions that were made in the past by our leaders to educate the people of the present. In the book, Leaders of the Lost Cause, the authors Gallagher and Glatthaar took into account that these people at that time did not feel that what they were doing at the time was wrong. Slavery had been around since 1619 when the first African slaves were brought to the colony of Jamestown, Virginia . During this period of time it was simply the way life for persons to own slaves and it was considered acceptable. I think it is important that Americans are educated on the history of their county, but educated on how these decision and ways were not human and should not have occurred. If Americans do not know the events of their history, be them right or wrong, that occurred and made our lives and country the way it is today, how will we know how to go forward without repeating mistakes of the

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