Armstead L. Robinson, Historian of the Confederate States of America /Joseph P. Reidy vii -- Armstead L. Robinson, Historian and Discipline Builder / Barbara J. Fields xii -- Chapter 1 A "Most Un-Civil War": Slavery and a Separate Nation 13 -- Chapter 2 "Playing Thunder": The Impact of Slavery on Confederate Military Strength 37 -- Chapter 3 "A People's Contest"? Popular Disaffection in the Confederacy 58 -- Chapter 4 "This War Is Our War, the Cause Is Our Cause": Aristocrats and Common Soldiers in Confederate Camps 84 -- Chapter 5 Failure of Southern Voluntarism and the Collapse of the Upper South Frontier 104 -- Chapter 6 Invasion of the Heartland and the Failure to Achieve Universal Conscription 134 -- Chapter 7 In the Wake of Military Occupation: Disaffection, Profiteering, Slave Unrest, and Curbs on Civil Liberties 163 -- Chapter 8 "The Carefully Fostered Hostility of Class against Class": Demoralization and the Fall of Vicksburg 189 -- Chapter 9 "A War Fought by the Weak": Desertions, Brigandage, Counterinsurgency, Anarchy, and the Rise of an Antiwar Movement 220 -- Chapter 10 "Every Man Says That Every Other Man Ought to Fight": Election Losses and the Debacle at Missionary Ridge 248 -- Epilogue: Slavery and the Death of the Southern Revolution 272.