and I'll speak a lot more

在课程的末尾我会详细讲解
about that at the very end of the course,

因为随着时间的推移
because the Lost Cause became an elaborate ideology over time,

败局命定论变成了一种复杂的意识形态
especially a racial ideology.

特别是种族意识形态
A lot of the debate among the generation that fought the war over,

参与内战的那代人之间进行的大量
what had caused it got all caught up in labeling.

关于内战肇因的争论但都沉迷于分类
Was the war "The War of the Rebellion", Which was the official,

这是一场"叛乱战争"吗
northern, federal definition and label of the war?

那是北方联邦的官方分类
This was not called the

联邦政府并没有把这战争
American Civil War by the Federal Government,

称为美国内战
it was called the War of the Rebellion.

而是称之为"叛乱战争"
If you go out and look at Civil War monuments on battlefields,

要是你出门参观内战战场的纪念碑