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They started the "Lost Cause Myth" which told the story that the South was doomed for defeat from the beginning and that those brave men and women of Dixie Land had fought and died to keep the Northern Tyrants from violating their rights. They failed to mention that these "rights" were the "rights" to own slaves and that the South had initially started the conflicting by seizing federal armories in the Deep South prior to Lincoln's inaugaration.
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