Ex-Confederates were defiant in defeat. It was a noble sacrifice of heroes to be revered, the Lost Cause. What they didn't win in Congress before the war or on the battlefield during the war they would still seek to win through other means after the war. They tried to continue on as much as possible as if nothing had happened, though some would flee to the West or Florida or internationally to start their lives anew (dispersal that I don't think happened in Britain?)
The Confederate is similar to other peoples defiant after being defeat in war. "We did loss the war for some other reason than just being beat"
This is Lee's famed General order 9... he is being defiant and blaming other than themselves for the lost of the war.
Headquarters, Army of Northern Virginia, 10th April 1865.
General Order
No. 9
After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.
I need not tell the survivors of so many hard fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to the result from no distrust of them.
But feeling that valour and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that must have attended the continuance of the contest, I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen.
By the terms of the agreement, officers and men can return to their homes and remain until exchanged. You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed, and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you his blessing and protection.
With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your Country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration for myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
— R. E. Lee, General, General Order No. 9
The Germans in the years after World War one, the right wing began to blame the communist, liberals, Jews, and politicians for the lose of the war. They argue the German army was never defeated and the Allies near entered German land. Called : Stab in the back myth... or
Dolchstoßlegende
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/stab-in-the-back_myth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
The stab-in-the-back myth (German: Dolchstoßlegende, pronounced [ˈdɔlçʃtoːsleˌɡɛndə] (
listen), lit. 'dagger-stab legend')[a] was an antisemitic conspiracy theory that was widely believed and promulgated among right-wing circles in Germany after 1918. It maintained that the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by certain citizens on the home front—especially Jews, revolutionary socialists who fomented strikes and labor unrest,[1] and other republican politicians who had overthrown the House of Hohenzollern in the German Revolution of 1918–1919. Advocates of the myth denounced the German government leaders who had signed the Armistice of 11 November 1918 as the "November criminals" (Novemberverbrecher).
When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, they made the conspiracy theory an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the "November criminals" who had "stabbed the nation in the back" in order to seize power. Nazi propaganda depicted Weimar Germany as "a morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, ruthless persecution of the honest 'national opposition'—fourteen years of rule by Jews, Marxists, and 'cultural Bolsheviks', who had at last been swept away by the National Socialist movement under Hitler and the victory of the 'national revolution' of 1933".[2]
Historians inside and outside of Germany unanimously reject the myth, pointing out that the Imperial German Army was out of reserves, was being overwhelmed by the entrance of the United States into the war, and had already lost the war militarily by late 1918.[
WE here in America. The right wing in America argue our army never lost a battle in Vietnam and it was the liberals and politicians that lost the Vietnam war. I remember Reagan pushing this myth forward as well... WE never gave it a name but maybe in one day future historians will give it a name.
