<P> Blight wrote: </P> <P> From this combination of Lost Cause voices a reunited America arose pure, guiltless, and assured that the deep conflicts in its past had been imposed upon it by otherworldly forces . The side that lost was especially assured that its cause was true and good . One of the ideas the reconciliationist Lost Cause instilled deeply into the national culture is that even when Americans lose, they win . Such was the message, the indomitable spirit, that Margaret Mitchell infused into her character Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind...</P> <P> Southerners were portrayed as noble, heroic figures, living in a doomed romantic society, who rejected the realistic advice offered by the Rhett Butler character and never understood the risk they were taking in going to war . </P> <P> The 2003 Civil War film Gods and Generals, based on Jeff Shaara's 1998 novel of the same name, is widely viewed as championing the Lost Cause ideology by creating a presentation that was favorable to the Confederacy . </P>

Who would the confederacy not used as soldiers