Lost Cause

English thumb|180px|Robert E. Lee, the most famous Confederate general. The Lost Cause movement treated him as a saint. Etymology From the generic term lost cause. The Confederacy was, of course, defeated. Proper noun Lost Cause 1 The belief that the Confederate cause during the American Civil War was just and not related to slavery. en H. E. Gulley Women and the Lost Cause: preserving a Confederate identity in the American Deep South Journal of Historical Geography 125–141 1993 April https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305748883710091 19 2 0305-7488 10.1006/jhge.1993.1009 Also implicit was the idea that all southerners accepted the basic tenets of the Lost Cause myth and concurred in this celebration of the Confederacy. Further reading Lost Cause of the Confederacy Anagrams en acelosstu cassoulet osculates scaleouts scales out en American Civil War Ideologies