“I am not ashamed of having fought on the side of slavery – a soldier fights for his country – right or wrong – he is not responsible for the political merits of the course he fights in . . . The South was my country.”
“I notice that … [one Lost Cause apologist] says the charge that the South went to war for slavery is ‘a slanderous accusation.’ I always understood that we went to War on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about. I never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery.”
Colonel John Singleton Mosby, Colonel 43rd Virginia Cavalry, CSA
And you're doing it again. Written in 1894 after he had become a Republican? Grant's Campaign manager? Wasn't that the party line back then?