Edward Pollard's 'The Lost Cause Regained'
If Jefferson Davis was the ember, then it was Edward Pollard that provided the wind to start the firestorm in constructing this image of the South with his books The Lost Cause and The Lost Cause Regained. Pollard championed the idea of the South fighting for states’ rights, slavery was not cruel, and the South fought against great odds. Pollard, in his attempt to write history, stated “The Union was nothing more than convenience of the States, and had no mission apart from them.” Pollard saw the political division line between the North and South to be coincidental that this line separated slave holding states and non-slave holding states. Pollard paints the Confederate army as “ragged and poorly-equipped.” This was to contrast the Confederate