CONTENTS

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Introduction to the Second Edition

Prologue

1: Antebellum

Top Ten Causes of the Civil War

Top Ten States with the Highest Percentage of Slaves

Top Ten Abolitionists

Top Ten Fire-Eaters

2: Politics

Top Ten Similarities Between Lincoln and Davis

Top Ten Differences Between the Confederate and U.S. Constitutions

Top Ten Acts of Government

Top Ten Events in Foreign Affairs

3: Military Life

Top Ten Weapons

Top Ten Items in a Soldier’s Diet

Top Ten Military Organizational Units

Top Ten Surgical Tools and Medicines

Top Ten Modes of Communication

Top Ten Causes of Military Deaths

4: The Home Front

Top Ten Hardships

Top Ten Acts of Dissent

Top Ten Newspapers

Top Ten Songs

5: In Retrospect

Top Ten Firsts

Top Ten Most Significant Battles

Top Ten Best Commanding Generals

Top Ten Worst Commanding Generals

Top Ten Bloodiest Battles

Top Ten Deadliest Military Prisons

Top Ten Military Blunders

Top Ten Heroines

6: Pursuing the War

Top Ten Civil War Films

Top Ten Ways to Be an Accurate Reenactor

Top Ten National Battlefield Sites

Top Ten Largest Civil War Cemeteries

Top Ten Ways to Get Involved

7: Epilogue, Time Line, Notes, Bibliography

Epilogue

Time Line

Notes

Bibliography

Image Credits

About the Author