"The first edition was published by ABC-CLIO, Inc., Santa Barbara 2003" --t.p. verso.

Pt. I. Southern civilians under siege. The last fire-eater : Edmund Ruffin -- Times to try a woman's soul -- A miserable, frightened life : Southern refugees -- "A species of passionate insanity" : women of Vicksburg -- Culture clash : invaders and rebels in the occupied South -- A lukewarm people : home front dissenters in the Confederacy -- "I ain't ashamed of nuthin" : Bill Arp explains the Confederate home front -- Pt. II. Northern society at war. George Templeton Strong and the serious job of journalizing -- Reporting the war : Civil War journalism in the North -- Literary nurses : Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman -- Thinking big : love and advice from Civil War fathers -- A record of munificence : supporting the troops -- "The bloody week" : the New York City draft riots -- Pt. III. The children's Civil War. Rabid partisans among their playmates -- What a difference a war makes -- A Northern boy and a Southern girl -- Playing soldier : Phip Flaxen and the watermelon war -- Oliver Optic's Civil War : Northern children and the literary war for the Union -- Pt. IV. African Americans and the war. Havens and hellholes : challenges and opportunities in the contraband camps -- Testing the boundaries : slave lives in the Confederacy -- Free to learn : educating freedpeople -- Pt. V. Aftermaths. "That such a thing could ever happen" : the death of a president -- Out at the soldiers' home : Union veterans -- Children of the battlefield : soldiers' orphans -- Up from slavery : African Americans after the war -- "True soldiers of the Southern cross" : Confederate women and the lost cause -- The devil's Civil War : the stories of Ambrose Bierce.