Great stuff. The real Confederate hero among the generals is Joseph E. Johnston, who avoided suicide missions urged on by Jefferson Davis, and who truly worked for unification after the war.

I've written a few articles about faux southern memory and related issues, imbued by my own experiences:

https://slhale.medium.com/my-confederate-heritage-a-contrarian-view-8bba37b3813ahttps://slhale.medium.com/i-was-a-12-year-old-civil-war-spy-96049d1cc25chttps://slhale.medium.com/nostalgia-isnt-what-it-used-to-be-96786484a43chttps://slhale.medium.com/nikki-haleys-defense-of-flaggers-doesn-t-make-a-lick-of-sense-1457fe38d17

The real revisionists are those who want to substitute fake history for the real thing. And they're more active than ever.