Excerpt from Papers in Illinois History and Transactions for the Year 1942 The Civil War left deep scars on the South. Perhaps, as Ben Robertson says, men forget their victories and remember only their defeats. They cannot accept the fact that so many of their youth have died in vain. They must turn lost causes into glorious traditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.