“Then, indeed, I gave up all idea of saving the Union except by complete conquest.” —U.S. Grant in his Personal Memoirs, in response to The Battle of Shiloh (April 1862) This piece is the third (and final) in a series looking at astrological interpretation in the life of Gen.…
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The Lost Cause
The Lost Cause refers to a revisionist, and ultimately historically delusional, account of the US Civil War from a pro-Confederate perspective. The Lost Cause is an attempt to argue that the US Civil War was not about slavery but rather about taxation disputes, states’ rights, and a Southern “way of…