Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.

The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscoveres

the forgotten stories that changed our world.

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

Welcome everyone to the very final episode in our series on the 10 Most Important Battles

of the Civil War.

We left the battlefields of the Civil War a few episodes ago to focus on the aftermath.

We looked at where all these different figures ended up, once the war ended.

We looked at the naval battles of the Civil War.

In this final episode, we're going to look at the final effects of the Civil War.

All the changes it causes on American society and the political, social, and technological

realms.

But before we get into those particular things, something that James and I want to discuss

is a theme that we've touched on various times throughout the series.

That is the memory of the Civil War.

We said that the offer-peated but false phrase history is written by the victors.

Well, it's not really because that's not the case in the Civil War.

There are ideas about it, it's still linger on, and we want to look at what those ideas

are, how they came about, and for the most part, why we don't believe they're true.

So there's a term called the myth of the lost cause that is the early narrative of the

Civil War.

And I'll just briefly describe what it is, and then maybe James, you can jump in and say,

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