The Lost Cause is a solitaire Civil War game where the player takes on the role of Jefferson Davis in defending the south from the invading north. It is one of the State of Siege line from Victory Point so you pretty much know from the get go that the assault will be relentless. The game comes with two maps, one for the basic game and one for the advanced game. Both are 11×17, full color and depict the states and key cities of the Confederacy split into three theaters of war. There are event cards for each year of the Civil War that are shuffled randomly by year. So you take the 1861 deck, shuffle it, and that is your starting deck of event cards. Each card represents one month of the war. The advanced game adds several more event cards and allows the game to go into 1865. In the basic game it is over at the end of 1864.

From "The Lost Cause Reviewed: Can the South Win This War?" https://thegaminggang.com/our_reviews/the-lost-cause-can-the-south-win-this-war/