Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: “A People’s War” xi
5. PART I Southern Civilians under Siege
6. Chapter One. The Last Fire-Eater: Edmund Ruffin 1
7. Chapter Two. Times to Try a Woman’s Soul 17
8. Chapter Three. A Miserable, Frightened Life: Southern Refugees 27
9. Chapter Four “A Species of Passionate Insanity”: Women of Vicksburg 39
10. Chapter Five. Culture Clash: Invaders and Rebels in the Occupied South 51
11. Chapter Six. A Lukewarm People: Home Front Dissenters in the Confederacy 63
12. Chapter Seven “I Ain’t Ashamed of Nuthin”: Bill Arp Explains the Confederate Home Front 73
13. PART II Northern Society at War
14. Chapter Eight. George Templeton Strong and the Serious Job of Journalizing 83
15. Chapter Nine. Reporting the War: Civil War Journalism in the North 97
16. Chapter Ten. Literary Nurses: Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman 111
17. Chapter Eleven. Thinking Big: Love and Advice from Civil War Fathers 123
18. Chapter Twelve. A Record of Munificence: Supporting the Troops 133
19. Chapter Thirteen “The Bloody Week”: The New York City Draft Riots 145
20. PART III The Children’s Civil War
21. Chapter Fourteen. Rabid Partisans among Their Playmates 157
22. Chapter Fifteen. What a Difference a War Makes: A Northern Boy and a Southern Girl 169
23. Chapter Sixteen. Playing Soldier: Phip Flaxen and the Watermelon War 179
24. Chapter Seventeen. Oliver Optic’s Civil War: Northern Children and the Literary War for the Union 191
25. PART IV African Americans and the War
26. Chapter Eighteen. Havens and Hellholes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Contraband Camps 205
27. Chapter Nineteen. Testing the Boundaries: Slave Lives in the Confederacy 219
28. Chapter Twenty. Free to Learn: Educating Freedpeople 229
29. PART V Aftermaths
30. Chapter Twenty-One “That Such a Thing Could Ever Happen”: The Death of a President 243
31. Chapter Twenty-Two. Out at the Soldiers’ Home: Union Veterans 259
32. Chapter Twenty-Three. Children of the Battlefield: Soldiers’ Orphans 271
33. Chapter Twenty-Four. Up from Slavery: African Americans after the War 283
34. Chapter Twenty-Five “True Soldiers of the Southern Cross”: Confederate Women and the Lost Cause 295
35. Chapter Twenty-Six. The Devil’s Civil War: The Stories of Ambrose Bierce 309
36. Bibliographical Essay 319
37. Index 325