This Blog is the first of a two part Blog series on the Confederacy and the Civil War; Part 2 will project History if the Confederacy had won the Civil War.    "The Past is never Dead. It is not even Past."...William Faulkner of Mississippi .   On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee, CSA, surrendered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to the overwhelming Union forces of General Ulysses Grant at Appomattox.   And what was the bloodiest war in American history was transformed into the most enduring myth of American culture.   The Civil War is the American Iliad; which begs the question: why would the South start an American Iliad? Especially after Lincoln, in his First Inaugural Address, offered them a Constitutional Amendment enshrining and memorializing Slavery.     “Lincoln stated emphatically that he had "...no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so,