The Lost Cause; A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates. Comprising a Full and Authentic Account of the Rise and Progress of the Late Southern Confederacy -- The Campaigns, Battles, Incidents, and Adventures of the Most Gigantic Struggle of…

xxx, 752 pp. 8vo. 6 plates and 24 engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Jefferson Davis and images of Confederate Vice President A.H. Stephens, Generals Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, etc. The standard Southern history of the American Civil War, written by the editor of the Richmond Examiner and published the year after the war ended. While it is presented from the Confederate perspective (defense of slavery and secession, etc.), it is not merely a polemic against the North. It was immediately popular, and was reprinted in several forms by E.B. Treat and other publishers in the two years following its original release.