The Lost Cause the Standard Southern History of the War of the Confederates

The Lost Cause the Standard Southern History of the War of the Confederates by Pollard, Edward A.. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780517160107.

Bonanza Hardcover with 752 pages. E.A. Pollard was editor of the Richmond Examiner during the War. This is a facsimile of the long out of print 1866 edition with twenty-four portraits of Confererate leaders. "This is General Lees army on its last leg: Jaded horses and mules refused to pull; demoralized and badly scared drivers, with straining eyes and perspiring bodies plied their whips vigorously to no effect; difficult places in the road were choked with blazing wagons, fired to save their contents from the enemy...Hundreds threw away their arms; the emoralization appeared at last to involve the officers; they did noting to prevent straffling; and many of them seemed to shut their eyes on the hourly reduction of their commands, and rode in advance of their brigades in dogged indifference. The Lost Cause is a facinating, brilliantly written book, long overdue on the shelves of todays buffs, scholars and readers of North and South.