we have a notion of ashley wilkes going home. we have other cultural references, one or two soldiers drifting home. we have the notion of a bunch of vagabonds terrorizing the countryside. but i wasn't clear how a confederate army was disbanded or demobilized. i thought, that's a great essay. i can delve into that. it didn't take long getting into the research before i realized, this story is so much more complicated than i had ever imagined. that blossomed into this book. >> yeah. indeed, it is a complicated book. i think it ties in a lot of the complicated themes very well. i'm going to -- during the course of our talk, i'm going to try to weave as many of those as i can. i tell you right now, as soon as i opened the book, it had me fascinated. i'm simply going to read the breakdown of the numbers that you put right in the prologue, right up front. right up front you tell us, lee had 60,000 men when he left richmond, 28,000 were paroled. about 11,500 became casualties, including captured, which is part of the story. that leaves

that is the flipside of the ashley wilkes image we have. i would say it certainly happened. but more often that not, at least in the accounts that are left, those on the homefront and by the soldiers themselves, many cap diaries on their way home. they weren't meticulous and recording with a got food from. who provided them shelter is not provide them shelter. they like to point out people who refuse them. but, there were also numerous instances in which they do talk about taking especially from african-americans. in particular there looking for quartermaster details they find several along the way outside of what is now at roanoke, virginia and danville, virginia, greensboro north carolina for there's a reason they're heading to some of these places they know their stores of food and other provisions. so if it did happen it happened less than i expected i might find. we went okay, okay. thank you very much doug. and finally david bradley from the uk to know, would you agree please admonishment against guerrilla warfare and grandson generous surrender terms greatly reduce th

we have ashley wilkes coming home in gone with the wind and other one or two soldiers drifting home or we have the notion of a bunch of vagabonds terrorizing the country side. but i wasn't clear how a confederate army was disbanded or demobilized. and so i thought that is a great essay, i can delve into that and it didn't take long getting into the research before i realized, this story is so much more complicated than i had ever imagined. and that blossomed into this book. >> yeah. and indeed it is a complicated -- a complicated book and i think it ties in a lot of complicated themes very well. during the course of our talk, i'm going to try to weave as many of those as i can. as soon as i opened the book, it had be fascinated. and i'm simply going to read the breakdown of those numbers that you put right in the prologue, right up front. right up front you tell us lee had 60,000 men when he left richmond. 28,000 were paroled. about 11,500 became casualties, including captures which is part of the story. and that leaves about 20,000 unaccounted for. so what are the future look like to

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