Resumen de The doctrine of victorious defeat in the rhetoric of confederate veterans
Confederate defeat, in 1865, left the South in search of an apologia which would satisfactorily explain the sharp variance between ante‐bellum expectations and post‐bellum realities. The following essay explores a part of that developing apologia, a reasoning chain frequently employed between 1889 and 1900 in the ceremonial oratory of Confederate veterans.
