Unreconstructed Rebel, Albert Goodloe, looked back from the distance of forty years at his time in Company D, Alabama 35th Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. He saw the carnage and horror of war but unlike many former Rebels, held on to his cherished beliefs about the "Lost Cause" long after the guns were silent. As an example of Southern literature of the post-bellum period it is rigid in its adherence, forty-two years after the war, to an ideology divorced from any critical examination of the role of the southern states in starting and prosecuting the Civil War.