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Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner! Hardcover – August 3, 2015

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There are two things that enemies of the traditional conservative South cannot tolerate: being faced with the facts and having their myths and lies about Lincoln's War exposed. But if we are ever to learn the full and honest truth about the conflict, then exposed they must be.


In Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner! award-winning historian and author Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook sets the record straight in this easy-to-read, well documented handbook that confronts the North's many falsehoods about the American Civil War - important facts the anti-South Movement has been suppressing for 150 years! Divided into convenient chapters, such as "Cause of the War," "Secession," "Slavery," "The Abolition Movement," "Jefferson Davis," "Abraham Lincoln," "The Emancipation Proclamation," "The Union and Blacks," "Yankee War Crimes," "Prisons," and "The Confederate Flag" (among many others), this bestselling exposé of Yankee anti-South propaganda has the power to heal hearts and change minds. For in reeducating the world about Lincoln's War it will give Northerners a better understanding of the conflict itself, while making Southerners, of all races and political persuasions, proud to be Southern.


Read the politically incorrect, international blockbuster that everyone's talking about - the book that totally blows the lid off Yankee mythology and debunks the Left's fake Civil War history - and learn the Truth for yourself, from Dixie's perspective. You will never completely understand the conflict until you do. Contains over 1,000 endnotes and a 700-book bibliography, and is endorsed by Dixie Outfitters, the Southern National Congress, League of the South, and numerous other pro Southern heritage organizations and individuals - and even by many Yankees. The Foreword is by noted African-American educator and Sons of Confederate Veterans member Nelson W. Winbush, M.Ed., the grandson of Private Louis Napoleon Nelson, just one of the hundreds of thousands of black Confederate soldiers who fought for the South.


Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner! has become required reading in homes and schools all over the world and is available in paperback, hardcover, and large print. Blurbs are by Thomas Moore (Chairman, Southern National Congress), Ronny Mangrum (Adjutant, Roderick, Forrest's War Horse Camp 2072, Sons of Confederate Veterans), Timothy D. Manning (Exec. Dir., The Southern Partisan Reader), J. T. Thompson (Exec. Dir., Lotz House Museum, Franklin, TN), Scott Bowden (award-winning historian and author), and Barbara Marthal, B.A., M.Ed., (African-American educator and Civil War reenactor).


Neo-Victorian historian Lochlainn Seabrook, whose literary works range from astronomy to zoology, is one of the most prolific and popular writers in the world today. A descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens, John S. Mosby, Edmund W. Rucker, and William Giles Harding, he is known by literary critics as the "new Shelby Foote" and the "American Robert Graves," and by his fans as the "Voice of the Traditional South." The Sons of Confederate Veterans member is a Kentucky Colonel, a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal, and the author and editor of nearly 100 scholarly books (currently). Described by his readers as "game changers" and "life-altering," his voluminous writings have introduced hundreds of thousands to vital facts that have been left out of our mainstream books. A 7th generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage and the 6th great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Col. Seabrook has a 45-year background in American and Southern history, and is the author of the sensational bestseller Abraham Lincoln Was a Liberal, Jefferson Davis Was a Conservative: The Missing Key to Understanding the American Civil War.

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"Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask A Southerner! is a magnificent historical resource for learning and re-learning all the facts about the Confederacy and why the War Between the States was fought. Colonel Seabrook writes excellent prose: easy to read and understand. This book must be on the shelves of every self-respecting person devoted to our beloved South and to preserving our heritage." - CONFEDERATE VETERAN


"With the publication of this book we Americans can finally reconcile our history with our past, through a balanced understanding of the greatness of our ancestors, particularly our Southern ancestors." - BARBARA G. MARTHAL, B.A., M.Ed. (African-American educator, lecturer, Civil War re-enactor, and member of the Tennessee Society Order of the Confederate Rose)


"I have often told my students that the 'History' studied in American Public (Government) Schools is as bogus as what the children in the previous Soviet nations were taught by their Russian tutors. Lochlainn Seabrook takes an objective giant step in seeking to restore accuracy and integrity in our understanding of the American experience of The U.S. War to Prevent Southern Independence (called 'Civil War' by northerners). This is an important step in correcting the obnoxious myths and lies widely promoted by the U.S. court historians." - TIMOTHY D. MANNING (Executive Director of 'The Southern Partisan Reader')


"If you want a refreshing pro-South, honest, factual view of the War Between the States that is not tainted with political correctness then this book is a must read. Colonel Seabrook's work is the first step to confronting the great injustice done to Southern history, emblems, and Confederate heroes by the liberal educational system, Hollywood, and popular culture. All of whom see no evil in stereotyping, ridiculing, and discriminating against descendants of Confederate soldiers." - RONNY MANGRUM (Adjutant for Roderick, Forrest's War Horse Camp 2072, Sons of Confederate Veterans; Former Heritage Violations Chairman for Tennessee Division, SCV)


"As the last portion of the Western World with an authentic culture, the South is known for its fine writers and storytellers. Tennessean Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook now joins that proud tradition. His book, Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner! is a real page-turner that defends the South and shatters Yankee falsehoods about our history. But it's not just a pro-South book, it's a pro-Truth book." - THOMAS MOORE (Chairman of the Southern National Congress and author of 'The Hunt for Confederate Gold')


"This wonderful read proves the point, 'there's always two sides to every story.' A gripping work that upon reflection will make you think about what you were or were not taught in school about American history." - J.T. THOMPSON (Executive Director, Lotz House Museum, Franklin, Tennessee)


"Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook's Everything You Were Taught About The Civil War Is Wrong, Ask a Southerner! is exactly what every patriotic Southerner needs today, 150 years after the War to Prevent Southern Independence. The establishment will pull out all the stops to continuing its demonization of the South. Southern folks can fight back with the information in this fine book. Truth is the most powerful weapon we have. Colonel Seabrook's book lays that truth out in a very enjoyable and usable form." - DR. J. MICHAEL HILL (President and founder of the League of the South)



"As the last portion of the Western World with an authentic culture, the South is known for its fine writers and storytellers. Tennessean Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook now joins that proud tradition. His book, 'Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!' is a real page-turner that defends the South and shatters Yankee falsehoods about our history. But it's not just a pro-South book, it's a pro-Truth book." THOMAS MOORE, Chairman of the Southern National Congress and author of 'The Hunt for Confederate Gold'

"This wonderful read proves the point, 'there's always two sides to every story.' A gripping work that upon reflection will make you think about what you were or were not taught in school about American history." J.T. THOMPSON, Executive Director, Lotz House Museum, Franklin, Tennessee

"Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook's 'Everything You Were Taught About The Civil War Is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!' is exactly what every patriotic Southerner needs today, 150 years after the War to Prevent Southern Independence. The establishment will pull out all the stops to continuing its demonization of the South. Southern folks can fight back with the information in this fine book. Truth is the most powerful weapon we have. Colonel Seabrook's book lays that truth out in a very enjoyable and usable form." DR. J. MICHAEL HILL, President and founder of the League of the South



"I have often told my students that the 'History' studied in American Public (Government) Schools is as bogus as what the children in the previous Soviet nations were taught by their Russian tutors. Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook takes an objective giant step in seeking to restore accuracy and integrity in our understanding of the American experience of The U.S. War to Prevent Southern Independence (called 'Civil War' by northerners). This is an important step in correcting the obnoxious myths and lies widely promoted by the U.S. court historians." TIMOTHY D. MANNING, Executive Director of 'The Southern Partisan Reader'

"If you want a refreshing pro-South, honest, factual view of the War Between the States that is not tainted with political correctness then this book is a must read. Colonel Seabrook's work is the first step to confronting the great injustice done to Southern history, emblems, and Confederate heroes by the liberal educational system, Hollywood, and popular culture. All of whom see no evil in stereotyping, ridiculing, and discriminating against descendants of Confederate soldiers." RONNY MANGRUM, President of The Green Cannon Tennessee Flag Conservation Foundation; Adjutant for Roderick, Forrest's War Horse Camp 2072, Sons of Confederate Veterans; Former Heritage Violations Chairman for Tennessee Division, SCV

About the Author

Neo-Victorian historian Lochlainn Seabrook, whose literary works range from astronomy to zoology, is one of the most prolific and popular writers in the world today. A descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens, John S. Mosby, Edmund W. Rucker, and William Giles Harding, he is known by literary critics as the "new Shelby Foote" and the "American Robert Graves," and by his fans as the "Voice of the Traditional South." The Sons of Confederate Veterans member is a Kentucky Colonel, a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal, and the author and editor of nearly 100 scholarly books (currently). Described by his readers as "game changers" and "life-altering," his voluminous writings have introduced hundreds of thousands to vital facts that have been left out of our mainstream books. A 7th generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage and the 6th great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Col. Seabrook has a 45-year background in American and Southern history, and is the author of the international blockbuster "Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!" For more information or to purchase Colonel Seabrook's books, visit our Webstore: www.SeaRavenPress.com

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sea Raven Press; Large type / Large print edition (August 3, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 266 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1943737010
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1943737017
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.07 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
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ACCLAIMED NEO-VICTORIAN SCHOLAR LOCHLAINN SEABROOK, a descendant of the families of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, John Singleton Mosby, Edmund Winchester Rucker, and William Giles Harding, is a 7th generation Kentuckian and one of the most prolific, esteemed, and widely read writers in the world today. Known by literary critics as the “new Shelby Foote” and the “American Robert Graves,” and by his fans as the “Voice of the Traditional South,” he is a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal. As a lifelong writer he has authored and edited books ranging in topics from history, politics, science, religion, astronomy, military, and biography, to nature, music, humor, gastronomy, alternative health, genealogy, and the paranormal; books that his readers describe as “game changers,” “transformative,” and “life altering.”

One of the world’s most popular living historians, he is a 17th generation Southerner of Appalachian heritage who descends from dozens of patriotic Revolutionary War soldiers and Confederate soldiers from Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. Also a history, wildlife, and nature preservationist, he is an accomplished and well respected Bible authority, a Kentucky Colonel, screenwriter, nature, wildlife, and landscape photographer, artist, graphic designer, songwriter (3,000 songs), film composer, multi-instrument musician, vocalist, session player, music producer, videographer, genealogist, former history museum docent, and a former ranch hand, zookeeper, and wrangler.

Currently Seabrook is the author and editor of nearly 100 adult and children’s books (a total of 13,000,000 words) that have earned him accolades from around the globe. His voluminous works, which have sold on every continent except Antarctica, have introduced hundreds of thousands to vital facts that have been left out of our mainstream books. He has been endorsed internationally by leading experts, museum curators, award-winning historians, bestselling authors, celebrities, filmmakers, noted scientists, well regarded educators, TV show hosts and producers, renowned military artists, esteemed heritage organizations, and distinguished academicians of all races, creeds, and colors.

Of northern, western, and central European ancestry, he is the 6th great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford and a descendant of European royalty. A constitutionalist, avid outdoorsman, and Second Amendment advocate, Seabrook is the author of the international blockbuster, "Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!" and editor-designer of Sea Raven Press' facsimile reprint of the American classic, "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government," by iconic American statesman Jefferson Davis. Col. Seabrook lives in the heart of Dixie, the homesite of both his ancestors and the Old Confederacy.

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Omits so much, but VERY interesting.
Interesting and full of quotes, it has a profound bias, which is fine. Very interesting!Still, it omits so much that it can not be taken seriously. For example, not a word about Southern War Ultimatums -- a big deal!Why not include what Southern leaders themselves said at the time?Not a word about Southern leaders speeches boasting they were at war to spread slavery.Not a word about Jeff Davis own writings explaining the South turned against states rights when Kansas rejected slavery, and the "logic" behind that switch.Not a word about Jeff Davis own "Address to people of the People of the Free States" in Richmond papers 1863, and so much more.Still, worth the read, and convincing if you don't know the facts.
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J. Stephen Conn
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Civil War books ever.
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2011
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Tens of thousands of books have been written about the War Between the States, and I have read more of them than I can count - mostly written from a Northern perspective. When I discovered this volume, "Everything you were taught about the Civil War is wrong, ask a Southerner," by Lochlainn Seabrook, it immediately went to the top of my list of favorites. Being an author myself, with six published books to my credit, I must admit that I envy the ability of Seabrook to express himself on the printed page in a way that is easy to understand, yet powerful and thought provoking. I had a very hard time putting it down, and I've found myself going back to read many passages again and again.

Actually, if your reading schedule demands that you put this book down before you finish reading it cover to cover, that's okay too. Each of the chapters can stand alone, making it an excellent book for either browsing or for reading straight through.

In the introduction, historian and author Lochlainn Seabrook, makes this bold assertion: "... slavery started in the North, abolition began in the South, Abraham Lincoln was a rabid white racist, Jefferson Davis adopted a black child, 95 percent of Southern blacks supported the Confederacy, and the Yanks started the war, a conflict that was illegal from start to finish." Then, in the next 22 chapters he makes his case in a manner which no intellectually honest person can easily refute. Seabrook states much more than just his personal opinions. He backs up every page with extensive notes and bibliography, quoting primary sources instead of just rehashing the words and prejudices of court historians.

The introduction to the book is written by the distinguished black educator from Memphis, Tennessee, Nelson W. Winbush, who said, ""I'm proud to be a real grandson, having in my possession the Confederate Battle Flag that draped my grandfather's coffin, a reunion jacket and cap, numerous newspaper articles and reunion pictures. I was five when he passed and I still remember war stories as told me by my grandfather." Another thing I liked about the book is that it closes with a very practical list, including contacts, entitled "How you can help preserve the South." I found this very helpful.

I must admit that this book made me angry. Having been born in the Midwest, reared mostly in the South, and living much of my adult life in the North, I was taught, from elementary school through college, only a very one-sided version of the "Civil War." I wish I had discovered this book and others like it much earlier.

The last three words of the title, "Ask a Southerner," is not always the best advice. The sad fact is that the majority of Southerners learn their own history from textbooks written by Northern authors, taught by politically correct teachers and professors - blindly passing down the same misconceptions and prejudices from one generation to another. All Americans would benefit from reading "Everything you were taught about the Civil War is wrong..." Prepare to be challenged - enlightened - and maybe even made angry that you weren't taught these truths before.
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Ben K
5.0 out of 5 stars Great product
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024
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Great book. You must read this.
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Minister of Groove
5.0 out of 5 stars History well taught!
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2023
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So well done and so much of what I read verified the very things I learned before the likes of Howard Zinn and revisionist American History. Loving American History as I have all my life and as a child of the fifties and sixties growing up in Virginia you were going to learn American History whether you liked it or not and you were going to visit historical sites all over DC and a wide radius from Virginia around all points South. In my case, having deep family ancestry going back to Jamestown also helped. Meeting a person recently that had the opportunity to work in the DC, Northern Virginia area for four years recently she said, "I have a whole new appreciation for the American South and American History in general." Amen
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Brenda J. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a mind blower!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2014
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First of all, I'm from the South - Alabama - the Heart of Dixie, and I've lived here my entire life. If this book is accurate and I tend to believe a good portion of it is due to all the documentation, I'm shaking my head at all the lies we've been taught throughout the years. How the South has been pictured in books, movies and television shows as the part of the country that had the most slaves, treated their slaves horribly, had the nerve to want and TRY to form our own country, etc. Shame, shame on us. Well, well maybe we aren't the real bad guys after all. Our love of the song "Dixie" (which was written by Black people by the way) and the Confederate Flag (which at my high school -Robert E. Lee HS - was banned in the 1970's and never allowed to be used again) wasn't meant to be hurtful towards any one race but just to be proud of what we stood for during the Civil War and the brave soldiers and their families both Black and White who died and suffered for it. The information about how the Confederate Flag was designed was very interesting as well. I always believed there was more to it than we were ever taught because why would so many good men including Lee and Davis and others fight for such a cause as slavery. It just didn't fit. I think the two things that really stuck out in my mind after finishing reading this book was what Lincoln was really like and all the awful things he did and the fact that Grant actually said that if Lee hadn't surrendered when he did within a year the South might have won the war. You can't tell me all of that doesn't make you just sit there and shake your head. If so many things were kept a secret from us over all of these years, what else of importance do we not know from the past AND the present?!!!!
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Tooand
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2020
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Great book really enjoy reading it would highly recommend to anybody well maybe not a die-hard Yankee haha
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Simon E.
4.0 out of 5 stars Gut und unterhaltsam geschrieben, sehr informativ. Natürlich etwas reißerisch und leider sehr viele Wiederholungen
Reviewed in Germany on July 28, 2015
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Ein (meiner Meinung nach) sehr interessantes und auch wichtiges Buch. Es ist eindeutig aus Sicht eines Südstaatlers geschrieben - aber da es angekündigt ist, ist das ist nur fair, denn die meisten Bücher, die man heute so findet, geben die Sicht des Siegers, des Nordens wieder. Und damit nur die halbe Wahrheit. In dieser Meinung stimme ich mit dem Autor schonmal überein :)
Da mich der Sezessionskrieg durchaus interessiert, war ich gespannt, welche Hintergründe "der Süden" so vorbringt. Und ich habe mich bestätigt gesehen, dass das oft verbreitete Bild "Süden böse! Norden gut!" und der Kriegsgrund sei die "die Sklaverei" gewesen einfach nur falsch ist - eben weil es zu einfach ist und unseren heutigem heutigen Wunsch nach "Gerechtigkeit" entspricht. Aber für "Gerechtigkeit" sind noch die allerwenigsten Kriege geführt worden. Wahrscheinlich sogar ...gar keiner.

Der Autor belegt anhand von historischen Dokumenten, die er fein säuberlich als Fußnote im Anhang auflistet (wie es sich für ein Buch mit einem gewissen Anspruch gehört), dass Lincoln zB ein krasser Rassist war, die Sklaverei als Kriegsgrund zunächst überhaupt keine Rolle gespielt hat und eine erstaunlich große Anzahl an Schwarzen auf der Seite des Südens kämpften - viele sogar freiwillig. Fakten, die den meisten Menschen (mir inklusive) nicht bekannt waren.

Das Buch ist einfach zu lesen und recht unterhaltsam, wenn (natürlich) auch etwas reißerisch. Es hat lediglich einen großen Schwachpunkt: es wiederholt sich oft. Der Autor leitet seine Argumentationen immer mit "What you have learned:" ein, stellt also einen Satz in den Raum, um diesen dann zu widerlegen. Nur sind die Unterschiede zwischen "Lincoln war Freund der Schwarzen" und "Lincoln war gegen Sklaverei" und "Lincoln war kein Rassist" gezwungenermaßen mit ähnlichen oder gleichen Fakten/Dokumenten/Argumenten zu widerlegen.

Meiner Meinung nach könnte man das Buch locker um 1/3 kürzen. - trotzdem - ein gutes Buch, das man gelesen haben sollte, wenn man sich für den Sezessionskrieg (absichtlich nicht "Bürgerkrieg") interessiert.
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Ovidio Gentiloni
5.0 out of 5 stars Controcorrente
Reviewed in Italy on November 24, 2014
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Ottimo libro. Permette di vedere la guerra civile americana dal punto di vista dei Sudisti, che non a caso la chiamano ancora Lincoln's War! Una guerra che è stata un'aggressione per motivi economici, in cui fino al 1863 della questione razziale nemmeno si parlava.
Una guerra conclusasi con un genocidio, costato la vita a un milione di civili del Sud.
Interessantissimo contraltare alla melassa servita da tutti i media, dalla scuola, dalle istituzioni.
Lo consiglio vivamente!
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fran
3.0 out of 5 stars Informative but flawed
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2016
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This is an interesting book and useful for writers like me who feed on ideas for their novels. This book provides an alternative perspective on the American Civil War though the 'facts', while I am sure they have some credibility, are somewhat skewed to support a particular anti Union stance. It is far from neutral. Of course the title gives away the major flaw "Everything you were taught about the Civil War is wrong". It's a flaw because everything I was taught or learned over the years is not wrong. I did find that some of the writing about slavery was particularly annoying as there is absolutely no doubt that it was an abomination. There are times in this book when it is suggested that it was not. I also found the quote about black soldiers in the Confederate Army to be misleading. They ended up it that army towards the very end of the conflict when the Confederates were on the brink of collapse and had to do something to shore up their defence. This book gives an alternative view.

On the whole, I would recommend this book to people, particularly writers and historians, if they want to see a different point of view about the dreadful conflict. Just keep checking to make sure you are not drawn into to right wing rascist beliefs. Take what it says with a huge pinch of salt. Fran Connor
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