God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind

More than a century after Appomattox, the Civil War and the idea of the "Lost Cause" remain at the center of the southern mind. God and General Longstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of the Lost Cause from the first generation of former Confederates to more recent times, when the Lost Cause has continued to endure in the commitment of southerners to their regional culture.
Southern writers from the Confederate period through the southern renascence and into the 1970s foster...