In the one hundred and fifty-one years since the South was invaded by a tyrannical Federal government, she has been anathemized and her symbols vilified. Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne is said to have remarked: "Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision." These words were prophetic.
