Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Introduction

Chapter One: The Bedraggled Army

Chapter Two: The Old Year has Closed

Chapter Three: Go Forward and Give Us Victories

Chapter Four: Suffering

Chapter Five: Great Advances

Chapter Six: Improving Spirits, Deep Beliefs

Chapter Seven: Longing for the Spring Campaign

Chapter Eight: The Finest Army on the Planet

Chapter Nine: The False Start

Chapter Ten: The End of the “Valley Forge”

Chapter Eleven: After Chancellorsville

Epilogue

Postscript: Posterity and Commemoration

Appendix 1:
After the Army of the Potomac’s “Valley Forge”

Appendix 2:
The Union Women of “Valley Forge”

Appendix 3:
Order of Battle: Army of the Potomac, May 1-6, 1863

Bibliography