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By Gaines M. Foster

After Lee and provide met at Appomatox court docket residence in 1865 to signal the record finishing the lengthy and bloody Civil conflict, the South finally needed to face defeat because the dream of a accomplice country melted into the misplaced reason. via an exam of memoirs, own papers, and postwar accomplice rituals equivalent to memorial day observances, monument unveilings, and veterans' reunions, Ghosts of the Confederacy probes into how white southerners adjusted to and interpreted their defeat and explores the cultural implications of a important occasion in American background. Foster argues that, opposite to southern folklore, southerners really permitted their loss, quickly embraced either reunion and a brand new South, and helped to foster sectional reconciliation and an rising social order. He lines southerners' fascination with the misplaced Cause--showing that it used to be rooted as a lot in social tensions due to quick swap because it used to be within the legacy of defeat--and demonstrates that the general public social gathering of the struggle helped to make the South a respectful and conservative society. even though the ghosts of the Confederacy nonetheless haunted the hot South, Foster concludes that they did little to form habit in it--white southerners, in celebrating the conflict, finally trivialized its reminiscence, decreased its cultural strength, and did not derive any distinct knowledge from defeat.

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