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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. FRAMING THE WAR
Linking America’s Two Most Important Wars
Antebellum
History and Historical Memory
Out West
One War or Two?: The United States Versus Confederates and Indians, 1861–1865
Unconventional Warfare
The Dark Turn—Late Nineteenth-Century Style
Reckoning with Confederate Desertion
The Grand Review
Revisiting the Gettysburg Address
Environmental Shocks
PART II. GENERALS AND BATTLES
Tracking U. S. Grant’s Reputation
The Supreme Partnership
R. E. Lee as a General
Robert E. Lee’s Multiple Loyalties
A One-Sided Friendship
Attrition in Lee’s High Command
Little Mac
How Lee’s “Old War-Horse” Gained a New Following
Stonewall Jackson and the Confederate People
Stonewall and Old Jube in the Valley
Sheridan Makes His Name in the Valley
Poor George Gordon Meade
Reynolds and Sedgwick
Toward Santa Fe and Beyond: Confederates in New Mexico
Gettysburg in Perspective
PART III. CONTROVERSIES
Let the Chips Fall Where They Will
Two Ways to Approach One War
The Union in Memory
The Union Army and Emancipation
Union Veterans Claimed They Fought for a Higher Cause
The War Was Won in the East
The Desperate Gamble
The War’s Overlooked Turning Points
Did the Fall of Vicksburg Really Matter?
What If?
Did the War End in 1865?
Occupation and the Union Military Effort
PART IV. HISTORIANS AND BOOKS
Lessons from David M. Potter
Two Gifted Writers
“The Plain Folk’s Pioneer” Reframed History
Recovering Allan Nevins
Acknowledging Ella Lonn
Shelby Foote, Popular Historian
Gettysburg’s Great Historian
British Writers View the Confederacy
Biographers and Generals
A Tactical History Masterpiece
Off the Tracks
The “Other” Confederate Army
Deciding What to Read
PART V. TESTIMONY FROM PARTICIPANTS
Seeing the War through Soldiers’ Letters
Father Neptune’s War
Abner Doubleday’s Revenge
Congressional Oversight with a Punch
Voices from the Army of the Potomac
Harvard Men at War
John B. Jones’s War
Right-Hand Men
Confederate Women View the War
Wartime Chronicle
A Window into Confederate Memory
An Indispensable Confederate and His Diary
Every Sketch Tells a Story
PART VI. PLACES AND PUBLIC CULTURE
Go to Gettysburg!
Battlefields as Teaching Tools
Fluid Landscapes
Reevaluating Virginia’s “Shared History”
The Power of Photographs
Glory: Reflections on a Civil War Classic
Hollywood’s Twenty-First-Century Lincoln
Appendix: Roster of Essays
Notes
Index
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