Battle cry of freedom: the Civil War era

Prologue : From the Halls of Montezuma

The United States at midcentury

Mexico will poison us

An empire for slavery

Slavery, rum, and Romanism

The crime against Kansas

Mudsills and greasy mechanics for A Lincoln

The revolution of 1860

The counterrevolution of 1861

Facing both ways: the upper South's dilemma

Amateurs go to war

Farewell to the Ninety Days' War

Blockade and beachhead: the Salt-water War, 1861-1862

The River War in 1862

The sinews of war

Billy Yank's chickahominy blues

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued

Carry me back to old Virginny

John Bull's Virginia reel

Three rivers in winter, 1862-1863

Fire in the rear

Long remember: the summer of '63

Johnny Reb's Chattanooga blues

When this cruel war is over

If it takes all summer

After four years of failure

We are going to be wiped off the earth

South Carolina must be destroyed

We are all Americans

Epilogue : To the shoals of victory

Afterword.