Introduction -- Provisional inaugural / Jefferson Davis -- A young soldier's first battle / Stephen Crane -- The night before Chancellorsville / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Chickamauga / Thomas Wolfe -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek / William Faulkner -- Fish-hook Gettysburg / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The burning / Eudora Welty -- Pillar of fire / Shelby Foote -- A private history of a campaign that failed / Mark Twain -- Homecoming / John O'Hara -- Second inaugural / Abraham Lincoln.