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I feel like if he was the ghost of a Confederate General that had died before the war was over, he wouldn't need to 'face up' at all.

The idea of the Confederacy fighting for states' rights and protecting themselves from 'North Aggression' was invented after the war by former Confederate veterans and politicians (named Alexander Hamilton Stephens) to rehabilitate their image and paint themselves as noble heroes rather than failed insurrectionists.

Stephens himself, while championing Lost Cause rhetoric after the war, had originally made his position abundantly clear at it's onset with the Cornerstone Speech, which declared that the CSA was founded on the principal of white supremacy and black enslavement.