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V.1: Darkening clouds -- The conflict preciptated -- The gathering of the hosts -- Bull Run and the peninsular campaign -- Stonewall Jackson and the valley campaign -- Second Bull Run and Antietam -- Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville -- How the soldiers lived: Eastern front -- Incidents of army life: Eastern front -- From Fort Decision to Stones River -- The struggle for Missouri and the West -- How the soldiers lived: Western front -- Incidents of army life: Western front -- The problem of discipline -- Great Britain and the American Civil War -- Songs the soldiers sang V.2: Gettysburg -- Vicksburg and Port Hudson -- Prisons, North and South -- Behind the lines: the North -- Behind the lines: the South -- Hospitals, surgeons, and nurses -- The coast and inland waters -- The blockade and the cruisers -- Chickamauga and Chattanooga -- Atlanta and the march to the sea -- The wilderness -- The Siege of Petersburg -- The Valley in 1864 -- Lee and Lincoln -- The sunset of the Confederacy.