@richardmattingly7000

2 years ago

Gen George Thomas who remained loyal to the Union though he was from Virginia and was in the same command before the war with the like of Lee-Jackson knew his people well. In a prophetic letter he wrote that he expected that those in the South would dedicate themselves for generations into reworking narrative in their favor. The defense Slavery which was at the forefront in Declarations of Secession and speeches to Confederate Troops reminded them that its was also a Race War time after time. Indeed the rationale was that they'd would be lowered into some new racial identity if they lost and many bitterly said as much in statements of loyalty to the United State again. Only a handful of Monuments relayed this openly and others didn't need to because in Stone or Bronze those that were freed knew lived its lie. The Lost Cause wasn't immediate as Gen Thomas knew but grew even more after his death at just 56yrs old while in command at the Presidio in California. When he died 1870 having been all but been exiled from his family-friends who thought him a traitor to the South he was defending himself in a letter he was writing about being dogged not flashy in defeating won. The South won the War on its actions so thoroughly that more military bases were named after Confederate to this day where those of Lincoln-Grant vanished and are all but forgotten that they ever existed at all.

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