‎"It is said that the first casualty of war is truth and that the victors write and perpetuate the history. There are two sides to every story, two sides to a conflict, and while it would seem simple to record and report history, it has always been open to different interpretations. Somewhere along the line the Southern perspective has been obscured.” 

The Sons of Confederate Veterans is an organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the Southern perspective to the War Between the States." Historian John Griffin wrote