And most of what is presented about the confederacy and its leaders is invented by Southern ones.
Seabrooks new 600-page book on Lincoln - not an anti-Lincoln work, but a pro-truth one - addresses this problem by looking at the president from the Souths point of view.
From the man who gave us "Nathan Bedford Forrest: Southern Hero, American Patriot"? I'm sure it's completely unbiased. </sarcasm>
Sometimes it is not a bad thing to read both sides. You ask, I offered. The letters Lincoln penned are in there.