The writers, to whom I refer, would deny these long honored men, their previously accepted place in history.
You're being terribly hypocritical. Neo-Confederates constantly slur and defame Abraham Lincoln, who has been rightly considered a hero and one of our greatest presidents for a century and a half. And you want to wine about how people treat Davis and Lee?
Although my own ancestors fought for the Union (and I believe they were correct to do so), I also deplore the revisionist history that turns the Confederacy into a sort of proto-Nazi Germany. I have to wonder, however, why the leaders of the Confederacy are admired for fighting waging war against the United States while anyone else who did so would be labeled a "traitor" and maybe even a "Communist." But the Confederacy, for some reason, is different.
I also wonder why white Southerners wanting to secede from the Union are "right wing" while angry Blacks who want to secede from the Union and create the "Republic of New Africa" in those very same states are "left wing." Does that make any sense to you?
I do not know if all secssionists were "right wing." Or that all Blacks who wanted to embrace the idea, promoted by Communists at one time, for a Black Nation in the old Black Belt, were in fact Communists. But what you suggest as a fallacy is actually factual as to the general, if not applicable to every particular. (Pardon that turn of phrase.)
The right/left dichotomy goes back to the seating arrangement in the French National Assembly at the time of the Jacobin Revolution. The landowners & high church types--those who stood for the protection of established institutions & long vested rights, sat on the right; while those who wanted to take away those long vested rights, sat on the Left--hence, not only the Jacobins, but the Communists, Socialists (including both the Democratic Socialists and the National Socialists) are all correctly identified with the Left.
While it is possible to have an autocracy on the Right or Left, what distinguishes a Leftist autocracy is always the monolithic insistence on uniformity of thought. Now admittedly, some rightwing governments have also embraced the compulsion involved. (See Compulsion For Uniformity.)
By the way, I have not been whining about the issues, here. Incidentally, the Confederacy was the furthest thing from Nazi Germany in the period. The Confederate States had two Jewish Senators at the time of secession, one of which became the number three man in the Confederate Government. They also allowed variations in uniforms, which would have never been accepted in the Third Reich, as well as social activities during the war--such as treating the civilian population with a sense of chivalry & romance, quite different, indeed, from the ways the German Socialists (Nazis) waged war on much of the civilian population of Europe.