Mourning at Stonewall Jackson’s Gravesite, 1866 Many Northerners were concerned that the defeat of the Confederacy did not lessen white Southerners’ devotion to the “Lost Cause” of a society based on the domination of African Americans. Women, who led the efforts to memorialize Confederate soldiers, are shown at the gravesite of General Stonewall Jackson in Lexington, Virginia. Virginia Military Institute Archives