casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough: thank you, dr. coles. thank you all for being here and for inviting me. so extend the last speaker' eloquent comment about the end of the war being a time of beginainty, i'd like to with that. that is essentially the reason for the strange story of these people called, who came to be called in brazil, confederados. ,hat is, former confederates former families, civilians, soldiers, administrators, who somehow ended up in brazil. dark slate in terms of history. there is only one boat in existence, it came out in the 1990's, university of alabama press, on the subject. students,courage graduate students watching and scholars watching who are interested in pan-american history as well as the civil war, this is a rich area of inquiry in which there is a lot of that still needs to be done. how did i come to it? i'm a little out of my element here, an english professor among s historicalho write fiction but did a lot of historical research for my book. for my fictional title," confederado." professorn english fro

coles: our second speaker is casey clabough. casey is a professor at lynchburg college and editor of the james dickey review and is english graduate director. a richmond native who grew up and appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume "best creative nonfiction of the press" "texas review and a variety of other things. one of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. he's had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. he has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. author of " confederados: a novel of the americas." the confederates that left the u.s. at the end of the war and went to brazil. i remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. bill maybe wrote that and i have never heard of it and i got interested. i'm looking for to hearing his top. -- his talk. his talk today is entitled, " confederados. casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough: thank you, dr. coles. thank you all fo

. >> our second speaker today is casey clabough.s a professor t lynchburg college and editor of the james dickey review and is english graduate dec