Homecoming -- A name in a book -- The Rip Van Winkle State -- A new life in the face of an approaching storm -- My Civil War past -- Wright's enlistment and early campaigns -- Bloodbaths at Gettysburg and Bristoe Station -- The home front -- POW life leads to being galvanized ... and a great escape -- Return and Reconstruction -- Trouble about a yaller dog -- On the research trail -- Statues of limitations -- The future of the past : the Civil War is still being fought -- Epilogue.