Lost Cause

English

Robert E. Lee, the most famous Confederate general. The Lost Cause movement treated him as a saint.

Etymology

From the generic term lost cause. The Confederacy was, of course, defeated.

Proper noun

the Lost Cause

1. The belief that the Confederate cause during the American Civil War was just and not related to slavery.
   • 1993 April, H. E. Gulley, “Women and the Lost Cause: preserving a Confederate identity in the American Deep South”, in Journal of Historical Geography‎^[1], volume 19, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 125–141:

     Also implicit was the idea that all southerners accepted the basic tenets of the Lost Cause myth and concurred in this celebration of the Confederacy.

Further reading

Lost Cause of the Confederacy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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