Beginning even before the Civil War was officially lost, pro-Confederate myth-makers began rewriting the real history to make it look like they were the victims, and not the perpetrators, of a war which cost hundreds of thousands of lives, North and South.
But the truth is, they were the perpetrators, and it's a Big Lie to pretend otherwise.
Those who know the facts are not going to look at the Confederate Battle Flag the same way you do.
I am aware that the South started the military action of the Civil War, if that’s what you mean by “perpetrators”. I am not referring to historical events, but rather the meaning attached to the Confederate battle flag in modern times, which is why I used the word “today”.
Untruer words were never spoken. Lincoln cobbled up that war, and it's all going to come out eventually, unless state archivists start burning the public records of six States whose governors were in up to their eyeballs with Lincoln's launch of the war.
Their responsibility for initiating a war to conquer the departing States and turn them into military provinces, is as absolute as Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's, for starting wars with Austria and France in 1869 and 1870.
Historians see through stuff like yours.