The Lost Cause - Lee Waiting for Grant by Thomas Nast, c. 1875
    Thomas Nast's portrait of a conquered yet noble figure became part of a Southern mythology that ignored many of the more difficult issues, particularly slavery, that led to war in the first place.  
The Lost Cause - Lee Waiting for Grant
by Thomas Nast, c. 1875


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