Rise Up and Call Them Blessed. Victorian Tributes to the Confederate Soldier, 1861-1901 12+

📒 Ever since Lincoln’s War the North has referred to Southerners as “traitors” and “rebels,” while claiming that the conflict itself was fought “over slavery.” After the War Confederate veterans were often ridiculed, slandered, and disgraced, prohibited from wearing their uniforms, establishing Confederate cemeteries, or erecting Confederate monuments. Southern women were even prevented from decorating the graves of their husbands, sons, brothers, and sweethearts. This anti-South sentiment has been vigorously carried into the present day: the Confederate Flag is being banned, Confederate graves are regularly defaced, Confederate monuments are being torn down across the country, and once again the old charges of “treason” and “racism” are being hurled at the South.Is any of this credible? Of course not! And award-winning historian Lochlainn Seabrook proves it in his unprecedented work Rise Up and Call Them Blessed: Victorian Tributes to the Confederate Soldier, 1861-1901. Here, those who lived during the War, and more particularly those who fought in it, are given voice to describe, explain, and vindicate the actions of the South, from secession to so-called “Reconstruction,” in an open, truthful, and objective forum—without the intrusion of editorializing pro-Union partisans. Thanks to Colonel Seabrook we are no longer dependent on the biased and willfully uninformed opinions of South-loathing historians to learn the truth about the War. We can finally view and understand the c...