[Ads-l] Very Slight Antedating of "Lost Cause" (Southern Mythology)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Lost Cause (OED, 2., 1865 [16 Nov.])

1865 Mobile Daily Times 15 Nov. 4/2 (Newspapers.com)

The undersigned is without means to prosecute so large a work ... He therefore proposes to publish it by subscription ... and he hopes every true man in the South will, as subscriber or contributor, make himself a party to an enterprise to rescue the lost cause of the Confederacy ... EDWARD A. POLLARD, of Virginia.  New York, Nov. 1, 1865.

Fred Shapiro

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