How and why interpretations differ

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• Confederate leaders said openly in 1861 that they were defending slavery, for example in the Cornerstone Speech.
• Within a year of the war ending, pro-Confederate writers such as Edward Pollard began claiming it had been about states' rights, not slavery.
• This 'Lost Cause' interpretation was shaped by who wrote it and why: defeated white Southerners wanted to justify their side.
• Groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy spread the interpretation through monuments, school portraits and checking textbooks.
• Comparing the later interpretation with primary sources from 1861 shows where and why the two accounts disagree.

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