BOOK REVIEW I have almost finished reading this book, and it is a must read for every person. It should be put as a mandatory read for every Civil War college class, and should be put in the library of every single southern school. The “Lost Cause” Myth which has sought to romanticize the Southern Confederacy as a group of nations who boldly and bravely stood up for “states rights”. However, that is a blatanty false and misleading statement. The South likes to call the Civil War, the war of the