ABSTRACT
Edward A. Pollard supported the Confederate States of America during the US Civil War (1861–1865). His paper, the Richmond Examiner, endorsed the Confederacy while critiquing its president, Jefferson Davis. After the conclusion of the military conflict in 1865, the Virginia native endorsed and spread Lost Cause ideology in two postbellum works, The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates and The Lost Cause Regained. Pollard articulated the central tenets of Lost Cause ideology in these works: political schisms rather than slavery caused the war, an endorsement of White supremacy, and that Confederate leaders rather than southern people lost the war.
