thern history.From this time on the Southern Historical Association waged an unrelenting campaign to deify the South. In 1889, another former hero John B. Gordon took control of the Association. Gordon had founded the United Confederate Veterans (UCV), and by 1898 there were 1,084 chapters with each named after a Confederate hero. At its apex in 1903 it had over 80,000 members, one third of all living Southern veterans and in conjunction with its sister organization, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, published the Confederate Veteran, which printed the correct view of the history of the war for future generations. This view centred around Robert E. Lee. The Southern Historical Papers continued to be published until 1914 and followed the same vein of Southern glory and legend.The fact that he myth of the lost cause found its basis in Jubal Earlys ego, which was to build him into something he wasnt, (a good soldier,) does not deter from the fact that he hit a nerve and used the pen to achieve success beyond his excessive imagination. As more and more organizations were formed in the South to extol the memory of the Confederacy, the myth became fact and is now accepted. This is not to say that there is not a lot of truth in it. The fact that it is more a matter of embellishment than fiction only serves to increase the belief....
