Fire-bell in the night. Beginnings ; Liberty and union, now and forever? ; Descent into war ; Bleak inaugural
Rally round. "We'll manage to keep house" ; The Anaconda and a picnic party ; McClellan and Grant ; Ocean, valley, and river ; Blue, gray, and red ; Seven days and another Bull Run
Die to make men free. In blood proclaimed ; A worse place than hell ; Bread and bullets ; Thunderstorm from a cloudless sky
That the nation might live. Gettysburg ; "Not for Uncle Sambo" ; From mud to mountain
The last full measure. Mr. Lincoln's general ; "The butcher" ; Damn the torpedoes ; "I almost tremble" ; On to Richmond! ; Appomattox ending
Taps and reveille. Malice toward one ; War without end? ; Memory
Appendixes. Words of war ; Who was who in the Civil War.