Includes more than 100 photographs, maps, fascinating tours of the routes, sidebar articles on military strategy and biographical sketches of generals as well as a chronology of important events, sources for additional travel information, an index, and a bibliography.

Atlanta -- Chapter 1. -- "I Can Make Georgia Howl" -- Chapter 2. -- "Ruin, Universal Ruin" -- Chapter 3. -- "Ready for a Meal or a Fight" -- -- Left Wing -- Chapter 4. -- "The Time of Trial Has Come" -- Chapter 5. -- "It Looked Like the Whole World Was Coming" -- Chapter 6. -- "Hurry Scurry, Run Here, Run There, Run Everywhere" -- Chapter 7. -- "I'm Going to Burn This Town" -- Chapter 8. -- "You May Hang and Mutilate Man for Man" -- Chapter 9. -- "A Cavalry Fight Is Just About As Much Fun As a Fox Hunt" -- Chapter 10. -- "It Made My Heart Ache" -- -- Tour of the Left Wing -- -- Right Wing -- Chapter 11. -- "It Was a Harvest of Death" -- Chapter 12. -- "The Whole World Turned to Yankees" -- Chapter 13. -- "We Begged Them to Leave Us Something" -- Chapter 14. -- "The Yankees Is the Most Destructionest People Ever I Saw" -- -- Tour of the Right Wing -- -- Alternate Tour of the Right Wing -- -- Savannah -- Chapter 15. -- "The Old Ones Can Fight in the Trenches As Well As the Young" -- Chapter 16. -- "God Bless You and the Army Under Your Command" -- -- Tour of the Siege of Savannah -- Chapter 17. -- "I Beg to Present You As a Christmas-Gift the City of Savannah" -- -- Tour of Civil War Savannah -- -- Carolinas -- Chapter 18. -- "The Streets Were Full of Crouching, Despondent, Weeping, Helpless Women and Children" -- -- Tour of the Carolinas -- Chapter Appendix A. -- Brick Walls and Rifled Cannon -- Chapter Appendix B. -- Gallant Defense of Fort McAllister -- Chapter Appendix C. -- Saga of Savannah's Ironclads -- Chapter Appendix D. -- Chronology -- Chapter Appendix E. -- Resources.