Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

by Ty Seidule

Showing the poor judgment and inflated self-regard that marked him, Beauregard argued that he should stay in the job because he promised to remain loyal until he left the country.

The job in question was as superintendent of West Point

By the 1930s, the Lost Cause myth was no longer a southern phenomenon.

The South had lost the war but won the narrative.