If a story ceases to be true, it ceases to be history.
What Really Happened never changes.
I agree with both of you that “History” should be a record of “What Really Happened.”
But, the term history also applies to records of what happened, which may be incomplete, or contain accidental or deliberate errors. The latter, of course, is propaganda, for which we have the phrase “Victors write the history books.” Or, blow up Palmyra, burn the Alexandria libraries, or pull down statues of Confederate heroes (or even those of the Founding Fathers).
Exactly what neoyankee south bashers like the OP of this thread hope for
As Cleburne famously said before Franklin whilst surveying the lay of the forthcoming battle from atop Breezy Hill with his brigade general officers Govan Granberry and Lowery.....going on memory I think Cleburne and Granberry fell that afternoon at dusk...
Cleburne said ...basically if lose today we lose everything including how we are described by the future
But note his contemporaries in the north respected he and his valor
It took 150 years till a generation of utter pussies who likely have never busted insomuch as a grape have taken him down simply to puff how noble they are about blacks
Blacks Cleburne offered to emancipate early on i might add
These same folks are onto Washington and Jefferson and Jackson and even Lincoln now
Not like wee didn’t try to warn them
I’m within LAPUA 338 magnum range of where Cleburne fell