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Index
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword
Contents
Part One: the Son
I. “An Event that Promises the Most Auspicious Fortune to the Wedded Pair”
II. “I Have Kept the Faith”
Part Two: Career Soldier
III. “I Wish I Was Back in Virginia”
IV. “A Hero Was Born”
V. “As the Twig Is Bent”
Part Three: the Virginian As Confederate
VI. “The Times Are Indeed Calamitous”
VII. “I Do Not See Either Advantage or Pleasure in My Duties”
VIII. “Richmond Must Be Defended”
IX. “A New Impulse from . . . Headquarters”
X. “Our Success Has Not Been as . . . Complete as I Would Have Desired”
Part Four: the Hope of A Nation
XI. “To Change the Theatre of War”
XII. “Only Heroes Were Left”
XIII. “Subsistence Was Coming to Dictate Strategy”
XIV. “Let Us Cross Over the River”
XV. “It Was All My Fault”
Part Five: the Hero in the Long Retreat
XVI. “I Cannot See How We Can Operate With Our Present Supplies”
XVII. “Every Advance . . . Has Been Repulsed”
XVIII. “We Must Strike Them a Blow”
XIX. “The Result May Be Calamitous”
XX. “I Shall Endeavour to Do My Duty . . . and Fight to the End”
XXI. “General Order No. 9”
XXII. “I Would Recommend . . . the Restoration of Peace”
Interlude: the Birth of the Symbol
XXIII. “I Have a Self-Imposed Task”
Part Six: the Capstone of A LifE
XXIV. “This Door and Not Another”
XXV. “This Too Shall Pass”
XXVI. “It’s Time . . . to Rest”
XXVII. “Strike the Tent”
Acknowledgments
Principal Unpublished Sources
Selected Bibliography of Published Sources
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