And more importantly, he sees that history doesn't get written when it makes him look bad.
Not necessarily true in the case of our Civil War. If you take a look at written CW histories from the 1870s through the 1950s, a majority are written by Southern authors. They write extensively of the “Lost Cause” view of the CW. It is not until around the time of the CW Centennial that more Northern born authors start to come forward with a substantial different view of those events.