Part 1.Secession in Kentucky and Tennessee -- Beleaguered loyalties : Kentucky unionism / Gary R. Matthews -- Not a pariah, but a keystone : Kentucky and secession / Thomas C. Mackey -- The vortex of secession : west Tennesseans and the rush to war / Derek W. Frisby -- "An unconditional, straight-out Union man" : Parson Brownlow and the secession crisis in East Tennessee / Robert Tracy McKenzie -- "We can never live in a southern confederacy" : the Civil War in East Tennessee / John D. Fowler -- Part 2. Traitors, blacks, and guerrillas in wartime Kentucky and Tennessee -- "Battle against the traitors" : unionist middle Tennesseans in the Ninth Kentucky Infantry and what they fought for / Kenneth W. Noe -- "Time by the forelock" : Champ Ferguson and the borderland style of warfare / Brian D. McKnight -- "I shoot the men and burn their houses" : home fires in the line of fire / Michael R. Bradley -- Freedom is better than slavery : black families and soldiers in Civil War Kentucky / Marion B. Lucas -- A long way from freedom : Camp Nelson refugees / Richard D. Sears -- "Not much a friend to traiters no matter how beautiful" : the Union military and Confederate women in Civil War Kentucky / Kristen L. Streater -- Part 3. War's impact in Kentucky and Tennessee -- "My trust is still firmly fixed in God" : Alfred T. Fielder, his Christian faith, and the ordeal of war / Kent T. Dollar -- An interrupted life : Colonel Sidney Smith Stanton / W. Calvin Dickinson -- The failure of restoration : wartime reconstruction in Tennessee, 1862-1865 / Jonathan M. Atkins -- Reconstruction power play : the 1867 mayoral election in Nashville, Tennessee / Ben H. Severance -- After the horror : Kentucky in reconstruction / B. Franklin Cooling.