Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (Bradley R. Clampitt- CA) mowday Grant’s directive to General Meade

Grant’s directive to General Meade was straightforward: “Where Lee goes

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which had been built on the bones of the scuttled USS Merrimack in Portsmouth

Those pitiful forms who did make it home faced other problems—crippling wounds that prevented or limited their ability to earn a living

It explains how Great Britain’s safety and continued existence as an empire depended on maintaining an influence on American foreign policy and how the growth of the Union navy—particularly its new ironclad ships—rendered her a paper tiger who relied on deceit and bravado to preserve the illusion of international strength

Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (Bradley R. Clampitt- CA) mowday Grant’s directive to General Meadeby 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