Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (Bradley R. Clampitt- CA) Section-Letters/memoirs " but Brian Steel Wills

" but Brian Steel Wills covers much more than the cavalryman's incredible feats on the field of battle

and a desperate

and his father Johnston Skelly Sr

Varney persuasively argues in General Grant and the Rewriting of History

Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (Bradley R. Clampitt- CA) Section-Letters/memoirs " but Brian Steel Willsby Bradley R. Clampitt This groundbreaking analysis of Confederate demobilization examines the state of mind of Confederate soldiers in the immediate aftermath of war. Having survived severe psychological as well as physical trauma, they now faced the unknown as they headed back home in defeat. Lost Causes analyzes the interlude between soldier and veteran, suggesting that defeat and demobilization actually reinforced Confederate identity as well as