Category Archives: Civil War Statues

On ending the myth of the Lost Cause

Posted on 29 May 2017 by Sylvia McLain

During Reconstruction, that horrific impoverished period in the US South after the Civil War, the Cult of the Lost Cause (of the Confederacy) took its roots in the minds and attitudes of Southerners and indeed of the nation as a … Continue reading →

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On the removal of our Southern ‘heritage’

Posted on 27 May 2017 by Sylvia McLain

In the US South, in various places, confederate statues are being removed. In New Orleans Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, General Beauregard – all these relics of the Confederate past are being transported to a cobweb, pigeon-shit and dust legacy.

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