Includes index.

The coming conflict : King Cotton to Lincoln's inauguration -- The inescapable conflict : Fort Sumter to First Manassas -- The brink of destruction : Shiloh to Fredericksburg -- God bless the cause : Emancipation to Vicksburg -- We are going to be wiped off the earth : Chickamauga to Lincoln's second inauguration -- We are all Americans : the road to Appomattox -- The border of sorrows : Lincoln's assassination and beyond -- A soldier's tale : Johnny Reb and Billy Yank.