Apostle of the Lost Cause: J. William Jones, Baptists, and the Development of Confederate Memory

by Christopher C. Moore

Perhaps no person exerted more influence on postwar white Southern memory than former Confederate chaplain and Baptist minister J. William Jones. Christopher C. Moore's Apostle of the Lost Cause is the first full-length work to examine the complex contributions to Lost Cause ideology of this well-known but surprisingly understudied figure. Commissioned by Robert E. Lee himself to preserve an accurate account of the
Confederacy, Jones responded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162190539X
• ISBN13: 9781621905394
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"