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Actually, in this case, the losers got to write history too.

The South lost the war, no doubt Ed, but as long as there remain those who try to re-write history, the battle is not done. Thus, the reason for the existence of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

The ability to write and have published a book does not automatically guarantee accuracy in that tome. Sadly, there is big market for the inaccurate written word. But, that's another one of the freedoms our ancestors fought and died for, eh?

SRH

stan: before you question the accuracy of any history book, perhaps you should first read it? maybe then when you state your conclusion about it, your opinion would be more valid?

also, ponder this:

There are all kinds of myths that a people has about itself, some positive, some negative, some healthy and some not healthy. I think that one job of the historian is to try to cut through some of those myths and get closer to some kind of reality. So that people can face their current situation realistically, rather than mythically. I guess that's my sense of what a historian ought to do.

� James M. McPherson, An exchange with a Civil War historian[6]