They began to say that they had not fought the war over slavery, but rather over states’ rights. They revised history for their present political needs. (This was wrong. This is what Georgia’s Alexander Stephens, vice-president of the Confederacy, had to say about it….) /8 pic.twitter.com/CCyT6ibOsJ

— Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@HC_Richardson) April 26, 2019