Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Slavery and the Coming of War
1. And the War Came
2. Escape and Revolt in Black and White
II. The Lost Cause Revisited
3. The Confederacy: A House Divided?
4. Was the Best Defense a Good Offense? Jefferson Davis and
Confederate Strategies
5. The Saratoga That Wasn't: The Impact of Antietam Abroad
6. To Conquer a Peace? Lee's Goals in the Gettysburg Campaign
7. The Last Rebel: Jesse James
8. Long-Legged Yankee Lies: The Lost Cause Textbook Crusade
III. Architects of Victory
9. "We Stand by Each Other Always": Grant and Sherman
10. The Hard Hand of War
11. Unvexed to the Sea: Lincoln, Grant, and the Vicksburg
Campaign
IV. Home Front and Battle Front
12. Brahmins at War
13. "Spend Much Time in Reading the Daily Papers": The Press and
Army Morale in the Civil War
14. No Peace Without Victory, 1861-1865
V. Lincoln
15. To Remember That He Had Lived
16. "As Commander-in-Chief I Have a Right to Take Any Measure Which
May Best Subdue the Enemy"
Notes
Index
James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He has published numerous volumes on the Civil War, including Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, which won the prestigious Lincoln Prize in 1998.
This well-written collection by one of America's leading Civil War historians is very welcome not only to those interested in the conflict, but also for readers fascinated by nineteenth-century military history. Jermey Black, History Today
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