A closely related topic that may be of interest:


Clampitt, Brad R. “The Breakup: The Collapse of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Army in Texas, 1865.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 108 (April 2005): 498-534.


   Some of the boys were not on their best behavior as they returned home.


   One other thing: on the possibility that large numbers of returning Confederate soldiers died on their journeys home -- the fact that no one (or at least no one I've heard about) mentioned these deaths in a letter, a diary, a newspaper article, a U.S. Army document is revealing. If large numbers of soldiers had really died on the road home, someone would have surely said something about it. What a perfect opportunity to slam the Federals -- but, apparently, no one did write about it.

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Richard Lowe
University of North Texas
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