@MidnightRider Have you read "How the South Won the Civil War" by Heather Cox Richardson?
@MidnightRider Learning history can be pleasurable and useful as well.
It covers all the ways the gains of the Civil War were eroded, particularly under Southern leadership. (Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson). The Lost Cause Myth came to be accepted revised history. Eagerness to get southern states back in the fold turned a blind eye to Jim Crow laws.