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The Confederate Triumvirate: Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and the Making of the Lost Cause, 1863-1940
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Degree Granting Department
History
Major Professor
K.
Stephen Prince, Ph.D.
Committee Member
John M. Belohlavek, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Julia K. Irwin, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Antoinette Jackson, Ph.D.
Keywords
Civil War, Reconstruction, Memory, South
Abstract
While numerous historians have studied and written about the lives and deeds of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E.
Lee, and Jefferson Davis, fewer have conducted analyses of these three individuals’ popular memories. This study considers how the memory of these three Confederate leaders formed the foundation of the Lost Cause. From 1863 through the 1940s, white southerners held each of these three men in high esteem, proclaiming them as heroes to the dead Confederate ideology.
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